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

The things we call failure, worriment, and hardship, are only the little tumbles by which we are learning to walk.

From What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Wood-Allen, Mary

However, there’s no use crossing a bridge till you come to it, and I may be having all my worriment for nothin’.

From Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball by Duffield, J. W.

Helen had set out upon her venture without much worriment of mind; but she had been badly frightened.

From Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall or Solving the Campus Mystery by Emerson, Alice B.

And eventually, to Janet’s worriment and perplexity, Virginia had ceased to write at all.

From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Standish, Burt L.