concernment

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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

Shall we in the greatest thing of the greatest moment, because of eternal concernment be as perishing brutish beasts, that know not what we aim at?

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

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 Wilson, John Mackay

Through never a moment I've known how to live lest All my thoughts but as one pressed You-ward for their concernment.

From The Tempers by Williams, William Carlos

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