accountableness
Example Sentences
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This single point—whether positive harm has been done to any one—comprehends the whole essence and sum of the conscious accountableness of very ignorant people.
From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster
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
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
