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

But wherefore need I thus descant of my own estate, when so many things of the highest concernment are pressing upon my tablets for registration?

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John

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

Their absence of concernment with their several objects for the sake of being accommodated to the nature of the mind is this "resemblance" which we mean.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

The chaplain, as the serjeant had done, endeavoured to evade a reply, by directing the unhappy man to matters of spiritual concernment; but he would not be evaded, and again repeated the question.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by Wilson, John Mackay