accountableness
Example Sentences
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"I am your son's tutor, and I know the accountableness of my position; I am in your service; this is your house, you can turn me out of it at once."
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
There was a conditional bargain proposed: as to be a servant, or tutor, or guardian upon trust, always implies conditions and accountableness to them that entrust them.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
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
