inaccountableadj.

1647 S. Kem Olive Branch Ep. Ded. sig. A5^v The inacountable and uncontroleable waters, with their independent ragings, sunke me to the eye of sense.

1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 216 To imagine that his years are to be understood one way, and those of his fellow-patriarchs another, would be an inaccountable fiction.

1708 J. Hog Otia Christiana iii. 52 I cannot escape to discover a great deal of inaccountable Weakness and a shameful power of Unbelief.

1749 J. Fisher Let. to Burgesses & Congregation 7 The Occasion then of this inaccountable Schism, as yourselves know, was a Debate anent the following Clause in the Burgess Oaths.

1823 J. C. Calhoun Let. 24 Aug. in Amer. Hist. Rev. (1934) 40 89 Great injustice is done me in Virginia..by an inaccountable misconception of my political principles.

1895 Mind 4 310 We..would thus exist only as inadequate thought-fragments of universal thought, excluded in some inaccountable way from full participation.

1902 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 13 401 The almost inaccountable states of emotional frenzy gamblers display.

1940 Taylor (Texas) Daily Press 22 Oct. The laws of chance which are supposed to govern such a drawing are inaccountable.

2013 T. Pynchon Bleeding Edge xxxix. 447 Maxine..snorts the last vestiges of his punk-rock cologne, trying to summon back something as invisible and weightless and inaccountable as his spirit.