Solicitude vs Concernment - What's the difference?
solicitude | concernment |
The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire for good; anxiety.
A feeling of excessive concern.
(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 solicitude and concernment
is that solicitude is the state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire for good; anxiety while concernment is (obsolete) the state or quality of being a concern.solicitude
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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 .