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
Shall we in the greatest thing of the greatest moment, because of eternal concernment be as perishing brutish beasts, that know not what we aim at?
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
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
"Brewster was altogether grand and his children must ever be our concernment."
From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll
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
