unaccountableness
- 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 Penn, William
Narrative would be trivial, conversation affected, motives inexplicable; for, indeed, the crucial difficulty is the absolute unaccountableness of boys' actions and words.
From The Upton Letters by Benson, Arthur Christopher
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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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 Moore, Thomas
If Widow Thrale had said one word to pave the way—had spoken, for instance, of the unaccountableness of the old lady's memories—Gwen might have seen daylight through the wood.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
