accountableness
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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
"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
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
With me, indeed, this question is one of sacred accountableness; whereas with my opponents, I have good reason to say that it is an occasion for gratifying a spirit of worldly opposition.
From Middlemarch by George Eliot
