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

And this sute we trust, you will the rather grant, because of the great and joint concernment of both Churches and Kingdoms in these matters.

From The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

There is one good and necessary thing that his heart is upon, and that cannot be taken from him; and therefore all things else are indifferent, and of small concernment to him.

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

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 Andrews, Charles M.

It is a wonder it doth not draw us upward beyond our own element,—it is a subject of such admiration in itself, and so much concernment to us.

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