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/ˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/
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/ˈɑːnsɹəb(ə)l/
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/ˈæn.səɹ.ə.bl/
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ˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l
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ˈæn.səɹ.ə.bl
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Przymiotnik
Required to justify one's actions (to somebody); accountable, responsible.
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1731, Jonathan Swift, “The Sentiments of a Church-of-England Man, with respect to Religion and Government” in Miscellanies, London: Benjamin Motte and Charles Bathurst, Volume I, Section 2, p. 91, Should any Man argue, that […] he cannot be justly punished, but is answerable only to God […]
Able to be answered.
Użycie- of a question
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Is my question answerable on basis of the reading alone or does it go outside the information given in the story?
Correspondent, in accordance; comparable (to).
Użycie- archaiczne
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What wit and policie of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course?
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To this revelation he assented the sooner, as he confesses, because it was answerable to that of the Apostle to the Thessalonians, Prove all things, hold fast that which is good.
Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.
Użycie- archaiczne
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[…] at my farm / I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail, / Six score fat oxen standing in my stalls, / And all things answerable to this portion.
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By my other wife I had a daughter, so hard favoured, so foule and ill faced, that I thinke a grove full of golden trees; and the leaves of Rubies and Dyamonds, would not bee a dowrie aunswerable to her deformitie.
Of an argument: capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
Użycie- rzadkie
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[T]he argument, though ſubtle, is yet anſwerable.
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capable of being answered
morally or legally responsible to a higher authority
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parents are answerable for their child's acts
liable to account for one's actions
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governments must be accountable to someone beside themselves
fully accountable for what they did
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the court held the parents answerable for their minor child's acts of vandalism
he was answerable to no one