concernment

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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

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 Binning, Hugh

A great concernment of this commonwealth 'which his Highness is eagerly set upon.'

From British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations, 1622-1675 by Andrews, Charles M.

The chaplain, as the serjeant had done, endeavoured to evade a reply, by directing the unhappy man to matters of spiritual concernment; but he would not be evaded, and again repeated the question.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by Wilson, John Mackay

It not only solicits the grave attention of all, to whom its doctrines are presented, but it demands their cordial belief, as a matter of vital concernment.

From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Greenleaf, Simon