Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Acknowledgment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Acknowledgment.

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  • noun obsolete acknowledgement

Etymologies

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Latin agnitio, from agnoscere. See notion.

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Examples

  • If we speak of the glory of God, which is capable of being given to him; which cannot be the glory that is essential to his being, but his extrinsical, or adventitious glory, it may be said to lie in these two things: namely, in the display thereof, and in the agnition and acknowledgement of his glory upon that display.

    The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822

  • The agnition or acknowledgement thereof is wont to ensue, which is the other thing considerable in God's being glorified.

    The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822

  • ‘postulations’, ‘coinquinations’, ‘agnition’, ‘zealatour’, all, with many more of the same mint, in the Rhemish Version, our loss would have been great and enduring, one which would have searched into the whole religious life of our people, and been felt in the very depths of the national mind {34}?

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

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