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

I have the pleasure of concernment in all he says; he drives his reader along with him.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

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 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

This then that we have in hand is one thing of greatest moment and concernment in the world.

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