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

The maintenance of the air-circuit is a matter of much concernment to the operators, for on it depends not only the health and security of the men but the safety of the mine itself.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey

Excuse me, I know you fear not to meet destruction; But where men are sure to perish, 'Twere well the persons were of less concernment.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

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 Gillespie, George

But, I beseech you, consider how greatly you mistake a main matter of weighty concernment.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh