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

In Appellations and References of particular concernment, if all parties having interest, have been present in the inferiour Judicatorie when the Appeal and Reference was made, then there is no necessitie of citation.

From The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

I doubt it not, Se�or, but I have desired to see thee, this night, on a matter of private, rather than of public concernment.

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore

But, I beseech you, consider how greatly you mistake a main matter of weighty concernment.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Now there is in everything properly called art this concernment of the intellect, even in the province of the art which seems merely practical.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John