responsibleness

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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)

He owed no obligations to anything except Art, and no responsibleness to anybody except the public.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

On its practice, by causing every one to act under a sense of God’s goodness and his own responsibleness, with uprightness of soul and in the spirit of Christian love.

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)

It's the kind of responsibleness that goes with havin' one boot that's wearin' me out.

From Cap'n Eri by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

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