concernment

Example Sentences

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They were matters of "publick Concernment" to this & every other Town & even Individual in the province.

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 3 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo

He tells us, we cannot so speedily re-collect ourselves, after a Scene of great Passion and Concernment, as to pass to another of Mirth and Humour, and to enjoy it with any relish.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor

Yet lest in these too it become dull and sluggish, it must be quickned by frequent lively touches of Concernment: such as that of the Goatherd in the third Idyllium,

From De Carmine Pastorali (1684) by Congleton, J. E. (James Edmund)

“The well-ordering of the Postes is a Matter of General Concernment, and of Great Advantage, as well for the preservation of Trade and Commerce as otherwise.”—Statute of Charles II.

From Cheap Postage by Leavitt, Joshua