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The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.

The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; as, pliability of disposition. "Pliability of movement." Sir W. Scott.

The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness.

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. "The awful idea of accountability." R. Hall.

To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions.

The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.

Liability to be removed or dismissed from office. [R.] T. Jefferson.

The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness. Burke.

Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.

Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. [Obs.] See In one's danger, below. You stand within his danger, do you not Shak. Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute. Robynson (More's Utopia).

person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability. Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt. Shak. When you run in debt, you give to another power over your liberty. Franklin.

Liability to be deceived or misled; as, the deceivableness of a child.

Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor.

The character of a doughface; truckling pliability.

ul restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.

Liability to error. Dr. H. More.

Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service. True nobility is exempt from fear. Shak. T is laid…

The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.

The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. Sir I. Newton. All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. Macaulay.