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/əkˈaʊntəbəl/ /əkˈaʊnəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Accountable adj.

Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

Capable of being accounted for; explicable. (R.) "True religion... intelligible, rational, and accountable, not a burden but a privilege."

Synonyms: Amenable; responsible; liable; answerable.

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Etymology of 'Accountable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Accountable" Quotes from Famous Books

... of pity. She seemed not to understand the young man's allegory, but yet to feel that it pointed to some great purpose, which must be an evil one, from being expressed in such a lawless fashion, and to perceive that Rowland was in some way accountable for it. She looked at him with a sharp, frank mistrust, and turned away through the open door. Rowland looked ...

— Roderick Hudson • Henry James

... to, Captain, do I give this boy into your care. He is good and innocent. Bear in mind that from now on you are accountable ...

— The Shipwreck - A Story for the Young • Joseph Spillman

... and worships pictures and stone images; but then, after all, she has got an immortal soul, and I can't help hoping Mary's influence may be blest to her. They say, when she speaks French, she swears every few minutes; and if that is the way she was brought up, may-be she isn't accountable. I think we can't be too charitable for people that a'n't privileged as we are. Miss Vernon's Polly told me she had seen her sew Sundays,—sew Sabbath-day! She came into her room sudden, and she was working on her embroidery there; and she never winked ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various

... to undertake that. So the upshot was, that for very cowardice she preferred stealing the match and taking French leave. It was a silly piece of business; but I could not help that, and they were accountable to no one. I promised to announce it to my aunt when the deed was done, and satisfied the poor little woman's conscience by undertaking to be my aunt's white ...

— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge

... were interpreted as the most criminal in the world! They said, I would be damned; as if the tears would open Hell for me, which surely they were more likely to extinguish. If I recited anything I had heard, they would render me accountable for the truth of it. If I kept silence, they taxed me with contempt and perverseness; if I knew anything without telling it, that was a crime; if I told it, then they said I had forged it. Sometimes they tormented me for several days successively, without ...

— The Autobiography of Madame Guyon • Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

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