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/æknˈɑlɪdʒmənt/ /ɪknˈɑlɪdʒmənt/ Listen

noun

Acknowledgement, Acknowledgment n.

1.

The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. "An acknowledgment of fault."

2.

The act of owning or recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness; a statement acknowledging something or someone. "Immediately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip."

3.

The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged; an expression of thanks.

Synonyms: recognition

4.

Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc.

5.

A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration.

Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords.

Synonyms: Confession; concession; recognition; admission; avowal; recognizance.

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Etymology of 'Acknowledgment'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Acknowledgment" Quotes from Famous Books

... her little low laugh of pleasure; at least it always sounded so. It might be pleasure at one thing or at another; but it was as round and sweet a tone of merry or happy acknowledgment, as is ever heard in this ...

— Say and Seal, Volume I • Susan Warner

... to aid the foe in the defeat of the national armies, to endeavor to prevent this evil by the slow routine of civil law, might result in the destruction of the state. The fact that we raise armies to secure obedience commonly enforced by the ordinary civil officers is a virtual and actual acknowledgment that a new order of things has arisen for which the usual methods are insufficient, civil authority inadequate, and to contend with which powers must be exercised not before in vogue. Codes of procedure arranged for an established and harmoniously ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. IV. October, 1863, No. IV. - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various

... little, to come in his way; but when in 1730 he clandestinely married the daughter of Sir James Thornhill, the Court painter was so incensed at this mesalliance that he refused the young couple any acknowledgment. It was at this very time that Hogarth created his first work of individual genius in that superb series of plates to which he gave the name of "The Harlot's Progress"; and it is said that Lady Thornhill designedly ...

— The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature • Selwyn Brinton

... Ellen Mary, and she refilled the cup and passed it back to her son, who received it without any acknowledgment. Challis and Lewes were observing the boy intently, but he took not the least notice of their scrutiny. He discovered no trace of self-consciousness; Henry Challis and Gregory Lewes appeared to have no place in the ...

— The Wonder • J. D. Beresford

... was still supposed to be represented by those spiritual lords in the states of the kingdom. After many struggles, the king, even before his accession to the throne of England, had acquired sufficient influence over the Scottish clergy, to extort from them an acknowledgment of the parliamentary jurisdiction of bishops; though attended with many precautions, in order to secure themselves against the spiritual encroachments of that order.[*] When king of England, he engaged them, though still with great reluctance on their part, to advance a ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. - From Elizabeth to James I. • David Hume

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