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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Accountable" Quotes from Famous Books

... imagination could never have suggested! In this I was too daring: a man must not, for knowledge, of his own will encounter temptation! On the other hand, I had reinstated an evil force about to perish, and was, to the extent of my opposing faculty, accountable for what mischief might ensue! I had learned that she was the enemy of children: the Little Ones might be in her danger! It was in the hope of finding out something of their history that I had left them; on that ...

— Lilith • George MacDonald

... on, scarcely recovered from the prostration of his fright, and inclined to hold the inmates of the tower accountable for it. Marie had just left Pierre Doucett, and his nurses were so busy with him that the swan was not detected until he scattered ...

— The Lady of Fort St. John • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... my efforts to trace them out, assures me, that I am correct when I affirm that two-thirds of all opposers are influenced in their conduct by the basest of principles; one-sixth act through ignorance, united with vice, and one-sixth are wholly ignorant and cannot be morally accountable, if their want of information is in any way excusable. But what may be still more startling, about one-fourth of the whole are members of the various churches, yea, even men of this class are found in sacerdotal robes. This fact came within ...

— Secret Band of Brothers • Jonathan Harrington Green

... to drive one crazy! Is a paltry prejudice to triumph over our right to be happy? We are both of age. We are accountable to no one on earth for our actions. An insurmountable obstacle, for the moment, prevents us making our relations respectable in the eyes of the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick-maker by paying a few francs to a registry-office and a priest. Has the mumbling of a priest so much ...

— The Malady of the Century • Max Nordau

... instance, go up to Colonel Hankin before leaving, and tell him that he lied, and that Mrs. Tailleur, though appearances might be against her, was as innocent a lady as Mrs. Hankin. He couldn't even announce his engagement to her by way of accounting for their simultaneous departure. They were not accountable to these people. But, if they stayed on as if nothing had happened, he could demonstrate to everybody's satisfaction that he had no other intention with regard to Mrs. Tailleur than to make her his wife and a mother to his children. That was why he was sending for them. Evidently ...

— The Immortal Moment - The Story of Kitty Tailleur • May Sinclair

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