concernment

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“The well-ordering of the Postes is a Matter of General Concernment, and of Great Advantage, as well for the preservation of Trade and Commerce as otherwise.”—Statute of Charles II.

From Cheap Postage by Leavitt, Joshua

He tells us, we cannot so speedily re-collect ourselves, after a Scene of great Passion and Concernment, as to pass to another of Mirth and Humour, and to enjoy it with any relish.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor

They were matters of "publick Concernment" to this & every other Town & even Individual in the province.

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 3 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo

Yet lest in these too it become dull and sluggish, it must be quickned by frequent lively touches of Concernment: such as that of the Goatherd in the third Idyllium,

From De Carmine Pastorali (1684) by Congleton, J. E. (James Edmund)