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

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

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

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

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