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

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

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

But, I beseech you, consider how greatly you mistake a main matter of weighty concernment.

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

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