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

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

But wherefore need I thus descant of my own estate, when so many things of the highest concernment are pressing upon my tablets for registration?

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John

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

But I don't see how the likes and the dislikes of a poor soldier can have any concernment with you.”

From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by Tucker, St. George