| 释义 |
accountableness|əˈkaʊntəb(ə)lnɪs|
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The quality or fact of being accountable or liable to give account and answer for conduct; responsibility, amenableness (to a person, for a thing).
1668Honyman Surv. Naphtali (1669) ii. 64 Subordination to the Prince, as to direction, accountableness, or censurableness. 1680Mather Irenicum 11 The lawfulness and usefulness of Synods in the Church of God, and the accountableness of particular Congregations thereunto. 1788Reid Active Powers iv. vii. 622 His accountableness has the same extent and the same limitations. 1858De Quincey Whiggism Wks. VI. 65 The same disdain of accountableness to his party leaders. 1868M. E. Braddon Dead Sea Fr. (Tauchn.) II. xiv. 198 The..ideas of man's accountableness for the soul of his weaker partner. |