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
It would have surprised Courtlandt could he have foreseen the drawing together of the ends of the circle and the relative concernment of the duke in knotting those ends.
From The Place of Honeymoons by Arthur Ignatius Keller
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 Robert Dodsley
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 Hugh Binning
What strange stupidity and senselessness is it, that men are not affected with things of so great and so near concernment?
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
