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
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 Charles Hoole
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
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 John Mackay Wilson
