answerabilityn.
/ˌɑːns(ə)rəˈbɪlᵻti/, /ˌans(ə)rəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌæns(ə)rəˈbɪlədi/ Accountability; responsibility; = answerableness n. 2.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > responsibility > [noun] > fact of being responsible, answerable, or liable
accounta1393
respondence1586
accountableness1625
accountability1750
answerability1769
amenability1789
liability1794
answerableness1813
accountment1857
1769 A. Machay Pasquin II. vii. 162 The answerability of man for his actions.
1851 F. E. Brewster Philos. Human Nature ii. 77 They have not only excused and indemnified a debtor from all answerability to his creditor of what he has done with his property, but they have openly legalized plunder.
1872 Canada Law Jrnl. Aug. 193/1 The realities of half a century of railway existence..and the pecuniary answerability of railway companies, have never warranted any such hypothesis.
1929 Another Milestone (Brit. & For. Bible Soc.) 18 The answerability of the Christian West for such a situation.
1970 R. Apthorpe People Planning & Devel. Stud. Introd. p. vii Governments and states have come to look less to their own hustings than to their external aid-providers for political answerability which the donors..say the foreign governments they support have already.
2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 July 24/3 When practitioners of a quasi-medical fad exempt themselves from answerability to empirical trials, one usual consequence is a proliferation of alternative schools.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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