answerablenessn.

1577 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. Ephesians xxxviii. f. 273 Seeing that God continueth his benefyting of vs, is it not reason that there should bee an answerablenesse on our part, too hold out in dooing him honour for his good turnes?

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xvi. 95 So as there may be a mutual answerablenesse on both sides.

1622 Countess of Lincoln Nurserie Ep. Ded. sig. A3 The practise of true Christian religion; dedicating your selfe to Gods seruice; answerablenesse to all holy commands of the holy God, which are Testimonies of Gods loue.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cl. 3 Annot.) 718/2 The answerableness of the notes in Musick to those observed by nature.

1752 W. Law Spirit of Love (1816) i. 45 There are but three forms of nature, in answerableness to the threefold working of the triune Deity.

1813 M. Mather Systematic View Divinity 19 What I here mean, is an answerableness of the frame of our heart towards God.

1851 J. J. G. Wilkinson Human Body i. 57 If then there were not some provision, sleepless and permanent, to keep us up to the human level, the answerableness of the body to the soul..would perish many times every day, and certainly with the first slumber.

1898 M. E. Bennett Gentle Art of Pleasing viii. 153 Geraldine wished to talk again about poise. Granting that self-respect and the contenting sense of heavenly friendship gave its repose, she asked what gave it the quality of answerableness, its response to the lightest touch.

a1952 A. W. Pink Expos. Hebrews (2002) I. ix. 113 The Greek term signifies the answerableness or agreement of one thing to another.

1813 J. P. Smith On Sacrifice of Christ 72 We commonly use guilt both in the sense of legal answerableness..and of blameworthiness.

1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal i. 15 To feel..our dependence upon God, and our distinct personality and answerableness.

1872 Friends' Rev. 29 Mar. 526/2 No arguments, no so-called necessities of society, can free any individual from his own personal answerableness to the one Lord of conscience.

1921 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 31 224 That Bürger did not strive towards such beauty, and that he felt no moral answerableness to his readers, caused Schiller to speak so harshly about his work.

2005 Observer (Nexis) 17 Apr. (Mag.) 12 I happen to be a theist. I believe in our answerableness to something else.