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

Now, again, to know that ye do believe, and to discern your interest in Christ, this is but a matter of comfort and of second concernment.

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

Through never a moment I've known how to live lest All my thoughts but as one pressed You-ward for their concernment.

From The Tempers by Williams, William Carlos

"Brewster was altogether grand and his children must ever be our concernment."

From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll

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