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concernment

[kuhn-surn-muhnt] / kənˈsɜrn mənt /


NOUN
interest
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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

"Brewster was altogether grand and his children must ever be our concernment."

From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll

And yet I could, with less concernment, bear That death of which you speak, than see you here.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John

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




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