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

I doubt it not, Se�or, but I have desired to see thee, this night, on a matter of private, rather than of public concernment.

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore

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

In Appellations and References of particular concernment, if all parties having interest, have been present in the inferiour Judicatorie when the Appeal and Reference was made, then there is no necessitie of citation.

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

Their absence of concernment with their several objects for the sake of being accommodated to the nature of the mind is this "resemblance" which we mean.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava