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

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

In Appellations and References of particular concernment, if all parties having interest, have been present in the inferiour Judicatorie when the Appeal and Reference was made, then there is no necessitie of citation.

From The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

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

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