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
But wherefore need I thus descant of my own estate, when so many things of the highest concernment are pressing upon my tablets for registration?
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt
Besides certain relations which it bears to matters of private concernment, I am not satisfied as to how I should deal with the ruffian we have suffered to depart so easily.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
And this sute we trust, you will the rather grant, because of the great and joint concernment of both Churches and Kingdoms in these matters.
From The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly
I have the pleasure of concernment in all he says; he drives his reader along with him.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
