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We suppose an intelligent personality, a free will, indispensable to responsibleness and alone amenable to retributions.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Jenny, scarcely conscious of any responsibleness for her first struggles, clutched at suffragism—a support for which life never intended her.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

He owed no obligations to anything except Art, and no responsibleness to anybody except the public.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

I take upon me the responsibleness of commanding that all proper care be had in defence of the weaker subjects of the Crown who are here collected.

From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by Cooper, James Fenimore

But there is a higher responsibleness than this, which they must not forget.

From The Religion of Politics A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts, At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842. by Gannett, Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles)