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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

... labor in the beginning of his career. These followed him for a long period. It seems that much time must nearly always elapse ere even genius becomes acknowledged, and its possessor receives that pecuniary reward so necessary to his support. This acknowledgment, and, to an encouraging extent, this substantial reward, came to Mr. Holland after a while, but not until after he had passed through many very trying scenes. One of the ...

— Music and Some Highly Musical People • James M. Trotter

... not already married?" inquired San Giacinto with a very slight inclination of his head, as an acknowledgment of the flattering speech whereby the prince had helped himself out of ...

— Sant' Ilario • F. Marion Crawford

... sallow, bilious face and hobble-gobble voice could scare the timid, but who would take to his heels readily enough if he were met firmly; that his "Meditations on St Jude," such as they were, were cribbed without acknowledgment, and would have been beneath contempt if so many people did not believe them to have been written honestly? Mrs Skinner might have perhaps kept him a little more in his proper place if she had thought it worth while to try, but she had enough ...

— The Way of All Flesh • Samuel Butler

... the great internal improvements which he advocated, to the prosperity of the State, brought back the party from their wanderings into abstractions, and with this return to the old ways, came also the acknowledgment of the political orthodoxy of Mr. Hill. The new paper was united with the old Patriot—and one of his sons ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various

... the fourth gospel present a difficulty in view of Jesus' warm approval of Peter's acknowledgment of him at Caesarea Philippi (Matt. xvi. 13-20). Jesus saw in that confession a distinct advance in the disciples' thought and faith. Yet the religious feeling which early questioned whether the Baptist even were not the Messiah (Luke iii. 15) would almost certainly have concluded that John's greater ...

— The Life of Jesus of Nazareth • Rush Rhees

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