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Acknowledgement   /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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"Acknowledgement" Quotes from Famous Books



... that at length George was coming to his right mind, and was about to yield, ordered the Roman Senate and people to assemble in order that all might be witnesses of George's acknowledgement ...
— Heroes Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie
... out a call to Cheng and received an acknowledgement. He and Maya started for the ramp, unaware that the building which was their goal housed the farm's control room, and the ...
— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay
... of the Bourbons, it lay in Lord Chatham; and in spite of the king's resistance the voice of the whole country called him back to power. The danger indeed which had scared Lord North into resignation, and before which a large party of the Whigs now advocated the acknowledgement of American independence, only woke Chatham to his old daring and fire. He had revolted from a war against Englishmen. But all his pride in English greatness, all his confidence in English power, woke afresh at the challenge ...
— History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8) - Modern England, 1760-1815 • John Richard Green
... This acknowledgement of royal authority by the Church was of great importance, since it gave the King power as feudal lord to demand from each bishop his quota of fully equipped knights or cavalry soldiers (SS150, 152). This armed force would usually ...
— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery
... him to Australia on a small allowance. He then made a will leaving the Carstairs Collection, actually with a yet smaller allowance, to my brother Arthur. He meant it as a reward, as the highest honour he could offer, in acknowledgement of Arthur's loyalty and rectitude and the distinctions he had already gained in mathematics and economics at Cambridge. He left me practically all his pretty large fortune; and I am sure he meant it ...
— The Wisdom of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton


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