Irrecognition

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A failure to recognize; absence of recognition. uncountable

    "This exquisite irrecognition of any law antecedent to the oral or declaratory , struck so irresistibly upon the fancy of all who heard it"

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"This exquisite irrecognition of any law antecedent to the oral or declaratory , struck so irresistibly upon the fancy of all who heard it"

Etymology

From ir- + recognition.

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