ACKNOW

Etymology

Verb

acknow (third-person singular simple present acknows, present participle acknowing, simple past acknew, past participle acknown)

(transitive, obsolete) To recognize.

(transitive, obsolete) To acknowledge; confess (often with "of" or "on"), reveal, disclose, realize

Anagrams

• Nowack

Source: Wiktionary


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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