Further Antedating of "Responsibility"

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Mon Jan 17 14:21:10 UTC 2005


responsibility (OED 1787)

1737 O. Sedgewick _The World Turn'd Inside-Out_ I. 102 (Eighteenth
Century Collections Online)  And if the Effects exceed his
Responsibility, his Conscience, if he had any, will never acquit him
of the Deficiency till made up, or atton'd for.


Fred Shapiro



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