Acknow

//əkˈnoʊ// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To recognize. obsolete, transitive

    "You will not be acknown, sir; why, 'tis wise. Thus do all gamesters, at all games, dissemble: No man will seem to win."

  2. 2
    To acknowledge; confess (often with "of" or "on"), reveal, disclose, realize obsolete, transitive

    "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."

Example

More examples

"You will not be acknown, sir; why, 'tis wise. Thus do all gamesters, at all games, dissemble: No man will seem to win."

Etymology

From Middle English aknowen, from Old English ācnāwan, oncnāwan (“to know, recognize”), equivalent to a- + know.

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