Definition of "answerability" []

• The state of being answerable. (noun)

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• "I hope that by now it will be clear that what I've called answerability to the culture was not, for Bell, any kind of easy compliance: it was an attentive and sometimes risky strategy of seeking to give a hearing to those voices in the corporate imagination that were pushing the boundaries of what made obvious sense, that were moving beyond a simple consensus, whether of taste or of ethical sensitivity."
• "Although what the abbot says must be done, without complaint (ch. 5), the abbot is adjured at some length to recall his answerability before God, his call to be the image of Christ in the monastery and to 'leaven' the minds of those under his care, and his duty to ignore apparent claims of status among the monks."
• "Yet that practitioner has no qualification, accreditation or 'answerability' for what they do?"