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 Hugh Binning
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 A. D. Smith
The simple appearance of distress was enough with the President; and if that were so with a man in concernment, what would it be with a woman?
From Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After by Henry Bascom Smith
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 Charles Hoole
