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

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 Dodsley, Robert

And that in that very order of things, in which they are described in the Janua Latinæ Linguæ; and with that fulness, that nothing very necessary or of great concernment is omitted.

From The Orbis Pictus by Hoole, Charles

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 Binning, Hugh

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