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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

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)

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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

I reflect for hours together on the unaccountableness of his conduct.

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana