concernment

• Xavier, one day perceiving the fear of his companion, forbade him absolutely either to change or soften any of his words: “I obeyed him,” says Fernandez, “but expected every moment when the barbarian should strike me with his scymiter, and confess my apprehensions of death were as much too great, as the concernment of Father Francis was too little.” —  The Works of John Dryden
• And so to write letters, I very late to Sir W. Coventry of great concernment, and so to my last night's lodging, but my wife is gone home to W.olwich. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1665
• Ambitioned is a great word with him, and ignore; my concern, or of great concern, is, it seems, properer than concernment: and though he makes his people say fine handsome things to one another, yet they are not easy and naive like the French, and there is a little harshness in most of the discourse that one would take to be the fault of a translator rather than of an author. —  The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54
• Another thing of much concernment is, To secure himself from danger of Russian interference. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
• He finds both Cheryk and Esfayl in the slightly larger space - Cheryk's study. —  Scion of Cyador

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