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

Besides certain relations which it bears to matters of private concernment, I am not satisfied as to how I should deal with the ruffian we have suffered to depart so easily.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

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

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 Smith, Henry Bascom

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