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 would have surprised Courtlandt could he have foreseen the drawing together of the ends of the circle and the relative concernment of the duke in knotting those ends.

From The Place of Honeymoons by Keller, Arthur Ignatius

This then that we have in hand is one thing of greatest moment and concernment in the world.

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

But I don't see how the likes and the dislikes of a poor soldier can have any concernment with you.”

From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by Tucker, St. George

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