adv. [UN-1 11.]
† 1. Without being liable to be called to account; irresponsibly. Obs.
1679. Oates, Narr. Popish Plot, Ded. a 2 b. 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.
1694. F. Bragge, Disc. Parables, xiii. 427. So unaccountably stupid and thoughtless are men for the generality.
1733. Cheyne, Eng. Malady, II. ix. § 7 (1734), 214. Which Symptoms, as they will come on unaccountably,… will go off as unaccountably.
1794. Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, lv. He had felt suddenly and unaccountably reassured of her innocence.
1847. Meeson & Welsby, Rep., XVI. 645, note. The season had proved unaccountably injurious to meat.
1885. Manch. Exam., 13 Jan., 5/4. The indifference of the clergy themselves to a defect which their flocks have so unaccountably condoned.
