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unaˈccountably, adv.
[un-1 11.]
†1. Without being liable to be called to account; irresponsibly. Obs.
1679Oates Narr. Popish Plot Ded. a 2 b, More to trust and rely upon Your Two Houses of Parliament..than to any..Ministers whatsoever, unaccountably, who may pretend to more Loyalty.
2. Inexplicably.
1694F. Bragge Disc. Parables xiii. 427 So unaccountably stupid and thoughtless are men for the generality. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. ix. §7 (1734) 214 Which Symptoms, as they will come on unaccountably,..will go off as unaccountably. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho lv, He had felt suddenly and unaccountably reassured of her innocence. 1847Meeson & Welsby Rep. XVI. 645 note, The season had proved unaccountably injurious to meat. 1885Manch. Exam. 13 Jan. 5/4 The indifference of the clergy themselves to a defect which their flocks have so unaccountably condoned. |