unaccountable
adjective
impossible to account for; unexplained; inexplicable.
unaccountableness
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a word derived from
unaccountable.
Example Sentences
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On the other hand, they equally dislike an independency in society:—an unaccountableness, in practice and conversation, to the rules and terms of their own communion, and to those that are the members of it.
From A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers by William Penn
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
I reflect for hours together on the unaccountableness of his conduct.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
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
