responsible
adjective
answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to orfor ).
responsibleness
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a word derived from
responsible.
Example Sentences
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It's the kind of responsibleness that goes with havin' one boot that's wearin' me out.
From Cap'n Eri by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
On its practice, by causing every one to act under a sense of God’s goodness and his own responsibleness, with uprightness of soul and in the spirit of Christian love.
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 Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles) Gannett
Jenny, scarcely conscious of any responsibleness for her first struggles, clutched at suffragism—a support for which life never intended her.
From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie
I have vowed not to accept again the responsibleness of a prophet.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
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 Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles) Gannett
