Wiktionary
account of
vb. (context transitive obsolete English) To esteem; to prize; to value.
Usage examples of "account of".
He thinks he will begin every account of this terrible afternoon (it has not occurred to him that he may not survive the terrible afternoon, at least not yet) by saying I just got home from work.
I said we didn't know, no one had been in there on account of the MSHA regulations.
There was a guy last week complaining on account of his dog got shot by one of them automatic weapons.