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Webster 1913 Edition
Acknowledgement
Ac-knowl′edg-ment
,Ac-knowl′edge-ment
(ăk-nŏl′ĕj-ment)
Noun.
1.
The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.
“An acknowledgment of fault.” Froude.
Immediately upon the
acknowledgment
of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. Hooker.
4.
Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc.
Smollett.
5.
A declaration or avowal of one’s own act, to give it legal validity;
as, the
. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. acknowledgment
of a deed before a proper officerAcknowledgment 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.
Cowell.
Syn. – Confession; concession; recognition; admission; avowal; recognizance.