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unreˈsponsible, a.
[un-1 7, 5 b.]
†1. Lacking substance or standing. Obs.
1634Jedburgh Town Council Records 28 Nov. (MS.), That no person..set any of their houses or buiths to un⁓responsible persons. 1710Ess. Hist. Last Ministry 67 The losses sustain'd by employing Unresponsible Persons in the Collection of Taxes.
2. Irresponsible.
1653[implied in unresponsibleness; see below]. 1786Burke Charges agst. W. Hastings v. ix, Thereby..changing him from a minister of the Company..to a dependant upon an unresponsible power. 1797Gillies Aristotle's Ethics & Pol. II. 59 note, A power unbalanced and unresponsible, and therefore..not made for man. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 333 Because the judges are unexperienced, uninformed, numerous, unresponsible. 1852Grote Greece ii. lxxxi. X. 610 Vesting in Dionysius a single-handed power..above the laws—unlimited and unresponsible.
Hence ˌunresponsiˈbility, unreˈsponsibleness.
1653Gauden Hierasp. 439 That unresponsiblenesse to any other;..that independence or absolute liberty in their will. 1935E. Hemingway Green Hills of Africa xii. 235, I..settled, happily, with the darkness into the unresponsibility of victory; only emerging to direct M'Cola in where to cut. |