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Definition of Answerableness
1. Noun. Responsibility to someone or for some activity.
Generic synonyms: Responsibility, Responsibleness
Derivative terms: Accountable, Answerable, Answerable
Definition of Answerableness
1. n. The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
Definition of Answerableness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being answerable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Answerableness
Literary usage of Answerableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gospel standard, or Feeble Christian's support (1879)
"At the same time, we have to lament deficiency, and to mourn over our little
answerableness to this, as well as to other divine dispensations. ..."
2. The Works of John Locke, in Nine Volumes by John Locke (1824)
"... a specimen of a master-piece in thai kind; but a specimen of the answerableness
of my Letter will require, as I imagine, a little more plain-dealing. ..."
3. The Christian Opportunity: Being Sermons and Speeches Delivered in America by Randall Thomas Davidson (1904)
"The Greater England almost alone remains, and the answerableness for its well-being
and its advance in all that makes a people strong, ..."
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