Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being acquainted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare State of being
acquainted ; degree ofacquaintance .
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Examples
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Something I shall add of my own present judgment in this matter; but with willing, express submission unto those whom the use and experience of things, with knowledge of foreign parts, skill in the rules of commonwealths, acquaintedness with the affections and spirits of men, have enabled to look punctually into the issues and tendencies of such a toleration.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Rep. I am persuaded that nothing but an acquaintedness with the condition of the times wherein we live can afford me sanctuary from the censure of the reader to be lavish of precious hours, in considering and transcribing such canting lines as these last repeated.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967
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She had a peculiar feeling of acquaintedness and of aloofness, intimate knowledge and a separation of sharp finality caused her to stare at him with so intent a curiosity that Mrs. Cafferty noticed it.
Mary, Mary James Stephens 1916
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