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Definition of Accountableness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Accountableness
Literary usage of Accountableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Intellectual Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1828)
"Of the accountableness or moral nature of man. ... His accountableness gives him
lew character ; it imparts to his natural existence, which has in common ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Accountability, * accountableness. responsibility, liability, obligation, bond
uf duty, ... accountableness, n. See ACCOUNTABILITY. Accountant, я. ..."
3. The Library Magazine (1886)
"It is the foundation of all rights and obligations, and of all accountableness ;
and the notion of it is fixed and precise." This seems a fair statement of ..."
4. Holy Scripture verified; or, The divine authority of the Bible confirmed by by George Redford (1837)
"... universality of Conscience — Instinctive propensity to Prayer—Indelible sense
of future accountableness. IN entering upon this branch of our subject, ..."
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