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
"Brewster was altogether grand and his children must ever be our concernment."
From The Comstock Club by Charles Carroll Goodwin
A great concernment of this commonwealth 'which his Highness is eagerly set upon.'
From British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations, 1622-1675 by Charles M. Andrews
The simple appearance of distress was enough with the President; and if that were so with a man in concernment, what would it be with a woman?
From Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After by Henry Bascom Smith
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
