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
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 John Ruskin
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 William Carlos Williams
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
But in cases of common concernment, difficulty, appeals, and the like, the preserving of the ordinances and church-members from pollution, doth belong to presbyteries and synods.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
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