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

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

That persons of known integrity may be employed in all parts, and a sufficient salary allowed, as becomes a trust of that great concernment.

From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by Smith, A. D.

And this sute we trust, you will the rather grant, because of the great and joint concernment of both Churches and Kingdoms in these matters.

From The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

Their absence of concernment with their several objects for the sake of being accommodated to the nature of the mind is this "resemblance" which we mean.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava