Importance vs Concernment - What's the difference?
importance | concernment |
The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
significance or prominence
personal status or standing
(obsolete) The state or quality of being a concern
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That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest.
* I. Watts
* Milton
importance; moment; consequence
* Jeremy Taylor
concern; participation; interposition
* Clarendon
emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety
* Dryden
As nouns the difference between importance and concernment
is that importance is the quality or condition of being important or worthy of note while concernment is (obsolete) the state or quality of being a concern.importance
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(-)concernment
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- Our everlasting concernments .
- To mix with thy concernments I desist.
- Let every action of concernment be begun with prayer.
- He married a daughter to the earl without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence.
- While they are so eager to destroy the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment .
