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

She was very pale and showed signs of great worriment and grief.

From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Standish, Burt L.

Had they carried their temporary possessor into any such worriment and trouble as he himself had often travelled through on their worn but faithful soles?

From True and Other Stories by Lathrop, George Parsons

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

So Neale took the old scrap-book home under his arm, neither he nor Agnes suspecting what trouble and worriment would arise from this simple act.

From The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to by Hill, Grace Brooks