definition of the word acknow

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Prefix a- + know, from Anglo-Saxon oncnāwan

Infinitive
to acknow

Third person singular
acknows

Simple past
acknew

Past participle
acknown

Present participle
acknowing

to acknow (third-person singular simple present acknows, present participle acknowing, simple past acknew, past participle acknown)

(transitive, obsolete) To recognize.
- Quotations
  
  You will not be acknown, sir. - Ben Jonson
(transitive, obsolete) To acknowledge; to confess (often with "of" or "on") - Geoffrey Chaucer.
- Quotations
  
  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 Thomas More