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Acknow \Ac*know"\ ([a^]k*n[=o]"), v. t. [Pref. a- + know; AS.
oncn[=a]wan.]
1. To recognize. [Obs.] "You will not be acknown, sir." --B.
Jonson.
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2. To acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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{To be acknown} (often with of or on), to acknowledge; to
confess. [Obs.]
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We say of a stubborn body that standeth still in the
denying of his fault, This man will not acknowledge
his fault, or, He will not be acknown of his fault.
--Sir T. More.
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