worriment

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Judge Yule paced from one to another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he finally went up to the Barton home to learn if the young girl had returned, he found the old man frantic with fear and worriment.

From Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Ball, Eustace Hale

The corporal's last order, "be ready to form here at reveille," is a source of much worriment to the plebe.

From A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism by Sinclair, Upton

Perhaps, if their thought had not been given so entirely to the bazaar during the last few days, the lawyer’s wife and daughter would before this have noticed his worriment of mind.

From The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air by Penrose, Margaret

It is the mere worriment of dragged-out unwellness that makes me see things in wrong dimensions.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry