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
By circumstances of such urgent personal concernment, as those in which Mr. Groves and his departed wife have been placed, the merely speculative part of religion is put to flight.
From Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 by A. J. (Alexander John) Scott
Through never a moment I've known how to live lest All my thoughts but as one pressed You-ward for their concernment.
From The Tempers by William Carlos Williams
Their absence of concernment with their several objects for the sake of being accommodated to the nature of the mind is this "resemblance" which we mean.
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Madhava Acharya
Now, again, to know that ye do believe, and to discern your interest in Christ, this is but a matter of comfort and of second concernment.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
