Chiefly U.S. [f. WORRY v. + -MENT.] The act of worrying or causing anxiety; the state of being worried or troubled in mind. Also, something that harasses or causes worry.
1801. Pittsburgh Gaz., 4 Sept., 1/3. After all his worriment and time spent to save the nation, if he must go to jail himself, our great men wont pay his debts, not they.
1855. Haliburton, Nat. & Hum. Nat., I. v. 128. The worriment we have had about money lately has set you a dreaming.
1863. B. Taylor, H. Thurston, I. iv. 91. Over and over again he had been on the point of giving her up, out of sheer worriment and exhaustion of soul.
1866. ‘G. F. Harrington,’ Inside, i. 9. It was a special weapon in her arsenal in the worriment of her husband.
1883. E. P. Roe, in Harper’s Mag., Dec., 46/1. Her slight tendency to worry saved others a world of worriment.
1886. B. Roosevelt, Copper Queen, I. x. 165. Ready with vinegar, hartshorn, and the usual worriments towards resuscitation.
1912. Mrs. Allen Harker, Mr. Wycherly’s Wards, vii. 108. I don’t know how they’ll take this fresh worriment.
