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

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

Now there is in everything properly called art this concernment of the intellect, even in the province of the art which seems merely practical.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

By circumstances of such urgent personal concernment, as those in which Mr. Groves and his departed wife have been placed, the merely speculative part of religion is put to flight.

From Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 by Scott, A. J. (Alexander John)

But in cases of common concernment, difficulty, appeals, and the like, the preserving of the ordinances and church-members from pollution, doth belong to presbyteries and synods.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George