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

I have the pleasure of concernment in all he says; he drives his reader along with him.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

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 Smith, Henry Bascom

And that in that very order of things, in which they are described in the Janua Latinæ Linguæ; and with that fulness, that nothing very necessary or of great concernment is omitted.

From The Orbis Pictus by Hoole, Charles

Shall we in the greatest thing of the greatest moment, because of eternal concernment be as perishing brutish beasts, that know not what we aim at?

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