responsibleness

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We suppose an intelligent personality, a free will, indispensable to responsibleness and alone amenable to retributions.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

I have vowed not to accept again the responsibleness of a prophet.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

With this recognition of the Divine power and goodness must be united a sense of the responsibleness under which every one lies before God.

From The Religion of Politics A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts, At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842. by Gannett, Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles)

But it did show that he had a sense of responsibleness, and a good one.

From Thankful's Inheritance by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

But Mrs. Courteen had fainted away and only half a dozen pins released from their responsibleness whispered a faint and ineffective answer.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton