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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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... her school him, for it is from her school that he has come: let her conquer him, for she is the conserver of this harm. It is she who makes of it a tradition. To its utmost bound of consequences, she is the mother of it, and accountable to God and man for its growth and continuance. Consuls, and senators, and patricians, and tribunes, such as we have, are powerless without her, are powerless against her. The state begins with her; but, instead of it, she has bred and nursed the destroyer of the state. Let ...

— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon

... Neville, 'I am accountable for mentioning it to you. And I did so, on the supposition that you could not fail to be highly proud ...

— The Mystery of Edwin Drood • Charles Dickens

... that you come here and take me to task?" I demanded, angrily. "I'll like anything I please, and without asking your permission. If I cared more for the Peterkin Papers than I do for Shakespeare, I wouldn't be accountable to you, and that's ...

— The Water Ghost and Others • John Kendrick Bangs

... respect, and walked forward to communicate this good news. The crew of the Yungfrau and the conspirators or smugglers were soon on the best of terms, and as there was no one, to check the wasteful expenditure of stores and no one accountable, the liquor was hoisted up on the forecastle, and the ...

— Snarley-yow - or The Dog Fiend • Frederick Marryat

... while he was secretary at the English Embassy in St. Petersburg. And Susie, who had heard of German philosophy and German stolidity, and despised them both with all her heart, concluded that the German strain was accountable for everything about Peter and Anna that was beyond her comprehension; and sometimes, when Peter was more than usually wise and unapproachable, would call him Herr Schopenhauer—which had an immediate effect of producing ...

— The Benefactress • Elizabeth Beauchamp

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