unaccountable
adjective
impossible to account for; unexplained; inexplicable.
unaccountableness
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a word derived from
unaccountable.
Example Sentences
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Had then that obscurity and unaccountableness, that mystery of power which is about it, any influence over the first persons who resorted hither for worship?
From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by John Campbell Shairp
But the contrast between this and the slipperiness, the unaccountableness, of the rest of his position, made him the more sensible of the latter.
From Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
You should not be swayed by common motives—how heroic to form a marriage for which no human being can guess the inducement—what a glorious unaccountableness!
From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 by Thomas Moore
I began to feel all over a cur’ous sort o’ peculiar unaccountableness, which it ain’t easy to explain, but is most oncommon disagreeable to feel.
From The Red Eric by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
He would have been more frightened only that he put her condition down to her general unaccountableness in some ways.
From The Beach of Dreams by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
