unaccountablyadv.
/ˌʌnəˈkaʊntəbli/, U.S. /ˌənəˈkaʊn(t)əbli/ΘΚΠ
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > [adverb] > not responsible or accountable
unaccomptablya1677
unaccountably1679
irresponsibly1861
1679 T. Oates True Narr. Horrid Plot Ep. Ded. sig. A2v More to trust and rely upon Your Two Houses of Parliament..than to any..Ministers whatsoever, unaccountably, who may pretend to more Loyalty.
2. Inexplicably.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > inexplicableness > [adverb]
unaccomptibly1678
unaccountably1694
unexplainedly1811
undecipherably1847
unexplainably1899
inexplicably1903
mystifyingly1937
1694 F. Bragge Pract. Disc. Parables xiii. 427 So unaccountably stupid and thoughtless are men for the generality.
1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. ix. 214 Which Symptoms, as they will come on unaccountably,..will go off as unaccountably.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. xvii. 391 He had felt suddenly and unaccountably reassured of her innocence.
1847 R. Meeson & W. N. Welsby Rep. Cases Exchequer XVI. 645 (note) The season had proved unaccountably injurious to meat.
1885 Manch. Examiner 13 Jan. 5/4 The indifference of the clergy themselves to a defect which their flocks have so unaccountably condoned.
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