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Definition of Concernment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concernment
Literary usage of Concernment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Benjamin Franklin by John Torrey Morse (1889)
"A CITIZEN OF PHILADELPHIA : concernment IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS. So has ended the first
stage, in the benign presence of Hymen. The period of youth may be ..."
2. Report on the Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont by Augustus Arthur Perceval Egmont, Sophia Crawford Lomas, William Page, Ireland Court of Castle chamber (1905)
"assure myself your friends in Ireland will suspend their faith in a thing of this
concernment till they have the true news from yourself or from more sure ..."
3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1807)
"of fo public a concernment, that they could not be filent in. Their petition
follows in ... concernment ..."
4. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"For although the word signifying remission have one sense among many other which
may seem proper for this particular concernment, yet because the same word ..."
5. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... my mind full of business and concernment how this office will speed with the
Parliament, which begins to be mighty severe in the examining our accounts, ..."
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