Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

concernancy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: con-cer-nan-cy
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Hamlet. The concernancy, sir? Why do we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath? Osric. Sir? Horatio. [aside to Hamlet] Is’t not possible to understand in another tongue? You will do’t, sir, really. Hamlet. What imports the nomination of this gentleman?"
"But if he asks for the concernancy and relevancy of it all he is answered only by the sledge-hammer strokes of rhetoric with which each idea is emphasized as it happens to present itself."
"At your age ‘death’ has no significance, at mine it is full of terror. One knows not how, or why, or with what concernancy, but suddenly one knows, and everything in life takes on another aspect."

Etymology

A Shakespearean coinage; see concern.

Usage

Questions

What does concernancy mean?: Relevance.
Where does concernancy come from?: A Shakespearean coinage; see concern.

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