Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Capability of being answered.
- noun The quality of being answerable or responsible; liability to be called to account; responsibility.
- noun The quality of being answerable or conformable; adaptability; agreement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
answerable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun responsibility to someone or for some activity
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Examples
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All those secret organizations, some which are overt, act for the interests of Zionism and under its directions, strive to demolish societies, to destroy values, to wreck answerableness, to totter virtues and to wipe out Islam.
Archive 2009-01-01 Dr. Sanity 2009
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By it is the law written in our hearts; that is, there is an answerableness in them unto all that the law of God requires.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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This, therefore, is required unto our receiving the things of the Spirit of God in a due manner, -- namely, that we spiritually see and discern their answerableness unto the wisdom, goodness, and holiness of God; wherein lies the principal rest and satisfaction of them that really believe.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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The best conjecture we can for the present make of what will be hereafter must be taken from what hath already come to pass; and the best guess of what events will be is to be raised from the consideration of what hath been, from a like disposition of causes to an answerableness of events.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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That soul is desperately sick which has lost an abiding sense of the excellency of this holiness, in its answerableness unto the holiness and will of God.
Gospel Grounds and Evidences of the Faith of God���s Elect 1616-1683 1965
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Wherefore we are required to be holy, as the Lord our God is holy; and perfect, as our heavenly Father is perfect: which we could not be, but that in our holiness and perfection there is a resemblance and answerableness unto the holiness and perfection of God.
Gospel Grounds and Evidences of the Faith of God���s Elect 1616-1683 1965
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If there were no other ill effect, this kind of limitation would at least have the radical disadvantage of dulling the edge of responsibility, of deadening the sharp sense of personal answerableness either to a God, or to society, or to a man's own conscience and intellectual self-respect.
On Compromise John Morley 1880
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Is there an answerableness within to the law without?
The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast. 1629-1699 1856
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There must be an answerableness in the frame of that man's heart that would be accepted of God, to the duties done by him; the spirit and affections within, must carry a proportion to his profession without; prayer without faith, obedience to the law given, without fear and holy reverence of the lawgiver, God abhors: acts of internal worship must answer the duties of external worship.
The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast. 1629-1699 1856
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Now where there is no grace wrought in the heart, there can never be any proportion or answerableness in the frame of that man's heart, to the duties done by him.
The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast. 1629-1699 1856
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