ACKNOW

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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

2.
v.

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.

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