concernment
Example Sentences
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Nearly everyone, Washington observed with consternation and annoyance, had “matters of private concernment which required them to be absent.”
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
That persons of known integrity may be employed in all parts, and a sufficient salary allowed, as becomes a trust of that great concernment.
From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by A. D. Smith
What strange stupidity and senselessness is it, that men are not affected with things of so great and so near concernment?
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
But I don't see how the likes and the dislikes of a poor soldier can have any concernment with you.”
From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by St. George Tucker
Excuse me, I know you fear not to meet destruction; But where men are sure to perish, 'Twere well the persons were of less concernment.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
