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

It not only solicits the grave attention of all, to whom its doctrines are presented, but it demands their cordial belief, as a matter of vital concernment.

From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Greenleaf, Simon

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

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

But wherefore need I thus descant of my own estate, when so many things of the highest concernment are pressing upon my tablets for registration?

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John