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 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

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.

I have the pleasure of concernment in all he says; he drives his reader along with him.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

And yet I could, with less concernment, bear That death of which you speak, than see you here.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John