ACKNEW

Verb

acknew

simple past tense and past participle of acknow

Anagrams

• wacken

Source: Wiktionary


ACKNOW

Ac*know", v. t. Etym: [Pref. a- + know; AS. oncnawan.]

1. To recognize. [Obs.] "You will not be acknown, sir." B. Jonson.

2. To acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.] Chaucer. To be acknown (often with of or on), to acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.] We say of a stubborn body that standeth still in the denying of his fault, This man will not acknowledge his fault, or, He will not be acknown of his fault. Sir T. More.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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