worriment

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Judge Yule paced from one to another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may seem that Winn was borrowing needless worriment, and yet once the canker spot of suspicion fastens itself upon a man's mind, it grows until it turns all things green.

From Rockhaven by Munn, Charles Clark

Surely we need not go through much more worriment.

From The Corner House Girls on Palm Island by Gooch, Thelma

The corporal's last order, "be ready to form here at reveille," is a source of much worriment to the plebe.

From A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism by Sinclair, Upton

For those golden moments of romancing Patsy’s quest was forgotten; they might have reached Arden and despatched her errand, for all the worriment their loitering caused her.

From Seven Miles to Arden by Sawyer, Ruth