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acknowledge
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten" [syn: admit ] [ant: deny ] report the receipt of; "The program committee acknowledged the submission of the authors ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, a blend of Middle English aknow (from Old English oncnawan "understand," from on + cnawan "recognize;" see know ) and Middle English knowlechen "admit, acknowledge" (c.1200; see knowledge ). In the merger, a parasitic -c- slipped in, so that while ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
acknowledge \ac*knowl"edge\ ([a^]k*n[o^]l"[e^]j), v. t. [imp. & p. p. acknowledged ([a^]k*n[o^]l"[e^]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. acknowledging ([a^]k*n[o^]l"[e^]j*[i^]ng).] [Prob. fr. pref. a- + the verb knowledge. See Knowledge , and cf. Acknow .] To own or admit ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to '''acknowledge''' the being of a god. 2 To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES acknowledge sb's presence (= speak to someone or make a sign to show that you know they are present ) ▪ He acknowledged my presence with a quick wave. acknowledge/recognize sb’s contribution (= say that you are grateful ...
Usage examples of acknowledge.
In fact, Abigail told me it was precisely because they had no money that her aunt and uncle in Washington refused to acknowledge them.
Hotel, and has been attended by the most happy results, yet the cases have presented so great a diversity of abnormal features, and have required so many variations in the course of treatment, to be met successfully, that we frankly acknowledge our inability to so instruct the unprofessional reader as to enable him to detect the various systemic faults common to this ever-varying disease, and adjust remedies to them, so as to make the treatment uniformly successful.
In a second she was giving her own breakfast to Abo, who neither thanked her or acknowledged her presence.
acknowledgeMENTS The author wishes to acknowledge the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies for their financial assistance with the preparation of this book.
The academicism of the Right does not even acknowledge a misery that the academicism of the Left utilizes for ulterior reasons.
Under the reign of Justinian, they acknowledged the god and the emperor of the Romans, and seven fortresses were built in the most accessible passages, to exclude the ambition of the Persian monarch.
This is true of everything a man does from such persuasive faith, whether he is acknowledging God, worshiping Him at home or in church, or doing good deeds.
Instead of acknowledging it he would deny it, and one who denies divine providence in his heart denies God also.
In despair, she saw the clock tick down to zero, watching as Rennell resisted acknowledging his incapacity.
Kuhl, that retarded people often resist acknowledging their limitations?
Monk paused, his voice acknowledging her worry and, perhaps, his own misgivings about Fleet.
Robespierre was attended with fatal consequences to him, and that his justification consisted in acknowledging that his friends were very different from what he had supposed them to be.
It has been said that at the interview at Erfurt Bonaparte consented to the usurpation of that province by Alexander in return for the complaisance of the latter in acknowledging Joseph as King of Spain and the Indies.
When the newspapers of our side had discovered and published it, and put it beyond his power to deny it, then he came forward and made a virtue of necessity by acknowledging it.
You may, therefore, comprehend, that being of no country, asking no protection from any government, acknowledging no man as my brother, not one of the scruples that arrest the powerful, or the obstacles which paralyze the weak, paralyzes or arrests me.