accountableness
Example Sentences
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Yes, they can—for they are men; generally reputable men; in cases not a few, pious men; and all have consciences, and may be made to feel their accountableness to God.
From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society
We are taught also that men, independently of their accountableness to their own governments, are accountable for their actions in a future state, and that punishments are unquestionably to follow.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Thomas Clarkson
His own accountableness, as soon as he can comprehend it, he begins to feel habitually, and always.
From The world's great sermons, Volume 03 Massillon to Mason by Grenville Kleiser
It is the foundation of all rights and obligations, and of all accountableness; and the notion of it is fixed and precise.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
He made them under the full and solemn impression of his accountableness to mankind, and the God of nations.
From Discussion on American Slavery by Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge
