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

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 that in that very order of things, in which they are described in the Janua Latinæ Linguæ; and with that fulness, that nothing very necessary or of great concernment is omitted.

From The Orbis Pictus by Hoole, Charles

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 Dodsley, Robert

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