Word Finder - acknowledge

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To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in

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to acknowledge the being of a god

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To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to.

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To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or a favour)

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to acknowledge a favor

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To report (the receipt of a message to its sender).

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This is to acknowledge your kind invitation to participate in the upcoming debate.

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To own as genuine or valid; to assent to (a legal instrument) to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form.

Jessi didn't acknowledge him at all.

She bit her lip but didn't acknowledge what I said.

Memon did not acknowledge his son or his words.

She barely turned to acknowledge him.

He failed to acknowledge my departure as I returned to our room.

I want to acknowledge the very generous contributions which have been made over the years by the public.

Sometimes, you need to acknowledge the path at your feet and just go with it.

The Director decided to acknowledge the existence of two kinds of quality that a museum can have.

She listened, not wanting to cry or acknowledge the level of pain she put him through for so long.

We will acknowledge receipt of your claim by email.

This monster had managed to find Merrill Cooms, forcing us to acknowledge his abilities.

You turned out okay or something to acknowledge the issue without personalizing it.

To acknowledge the fact is to abandon all hope.

Were you afraid I was too much of a prude to acknowledge him?

On his return to Rome, Eugenius had to treat with his rebel subjects and to acknowledge the senate they had elected, but he was unable to procure the expulsion of the agitator.

An instinct wriggled, one she didn't want to acknowledge or deal with.

Xander didn't acknowledge Jule's statement.

In a fit of jealousy the emperor commanded that this masterpiece should be thrown down, and sent commissioners to Amber charged with the execution of this order; whereupon Mirza, in order to save the structure, had the columns plastered over with stucco, so that the messengers from Agra should have to acknowledge to the emperor that the magnificence, which had been so much talked of, was after all pure invention.

Latest of all to acknowledge the impulse of the new departure have been the potters of Kaga.

The congress appointed him to conduct an expedition against Santa Fe de Bogota, where Don Cundinamarca had refused to acknowledge the new coalition of the provinces.

Athens, whose general Chares had supported Artabazus, was by the threatening messages of the king forced to conclude peace, and to acknowledge the independence of its rebellious allies (355 B.C.).

Before Him they all bow in worship and acknowledge that by Him were created all things and of His own free will were all created.

The sultan was forced to acknowledge their validity, and to grant a German company a lease of his mainland territories south of the mouth of the Umba river, a British company formed by Mackinnon taking a lease of the territories north of that point.

The treaties gave great offence to the Boers, who refused to acknowledge the sovereignty of the native chiefs.

Manjuyama, thanks to the courage of the army commander and of a single brigadier, was at last carried after nightfall, and the dislodged Russians made two counter-attacks in the dark before they would acknowledge themselves beaten.

The problems particularly of the primitive history were first brought into clear light by him, and all subsequent work upon the subject must acknowledge its indebtedness to him.

For the latter they have nothing but condemnation, but the former they acknowledge as part of the divine order of the state, while the y complain that the priests have prostituted their office for lucre.

He sought to remedy the evil by liaisons with two of the most beautiful of his countrywomen, Barbara Gizanka and Anna Zajanczkowska, the diet undertaking to legitimatize and acknowledge as his successor any heir male who might be born to him; but their complacency was in vain, for the king died childless.

On the 10th of July 1460 Henry was taken prisoner at Northampton, and forced to acknowledge York as heir, to the exclusion of his own son.

He also had to submit to the consequences of his origin on the occasion of a double election not foreseen by the Concordat of Worms, when he was forced to admit the necessity of appeal to Rome and to acknowledge the supremacy of the papal decision.

His greatest success, however, was gained in the Eternal City itself; for he contrived, after many vicissitudes, to induce the Romans to annul their republican constitution and acknowledge the papal supremacy, even in municipal matters.

General Arthur refused to resign on the ground that to retire "under fire" would be to acknowledge wrong-doing, and claimed that as the abuses were inherent in a widespread system he should not be made to bear the responsibility alone.

The treaty of Irvine, by which these Scottish nobles agreed to acknowledge Edward as their sovereign lord, is printed in Rymer's Foedera.

The Bohemians refused to acknowledge him as their king and elected in his stead Frederick V., the elector palatine of the Rhine, a son-inlaw of the English king James I., and the Hungarians and the Austrians were hardly less disaffected.

Accordingly in 1606 The the archdukes made a compact agreeing to acknowledge family the archduke Matthias as head of the family.

Some of the tribes, disappointed at not being taken over by Great Britain, refused to acknowledge German sovereignty.

He brought Medina, which had previously been governed by independent sherifs, to acknowledge his authority.

Sheik himself invaded Asia Minor and forced the Turkoman states to acknowledge his suzerainty.

Roger, freed from the utmost danger, recovered ground, sacked Capua and forced Sergius to acknowledge him as overlord of Naples.

But as the Buddha did not acknowledge a soul, the link of connexion between one life and the next had to be found somewhere else.

It is particularly interesting to find in the Amarna letters that the supremacy of Egypt meant also that of the national god, and the loyal Palestinian kings acknowledge that their land belonged to Egypt's king and god.

He seized the capital, Pataliputra, the modern Patna, established himself firmly in the Gangetic valley, and compelled the north-western principalities, Greeks and natives alike, to acknowledge his suzerainty.

In 1884 Great Britain, which up to that time had steadily refused to acknowledge that Portugal possessed territorial rights north of Ambriz, concluded a treaty recognizing Portuguese sovereignty over both banks of the lower Congo; but the treaty, meeting with opposition in England and Germany, was not ratified.

It is a view difficult to prove, and probably few will acknowledge that Clarke has conclusively proved it.

Abi Arta made his expedition against Medina and Mecca, whose inhabitants were compelled to acknowledge the caliphate of Moawiya.

After this new pacification, Merwan caused the Syrians to acknowledge his two sons as heirs to the Caliphate, and married them to two daughters of Hisham.

Ibn Omar did not acknowledge Merwan as caliph.

Sayyar did not at once acknowledge the Caliphate of Yazid III., but induced the Arab chiefs to accept himself as amir of Khorasan, until a caliph should be universally acknowledged.

Ali pretended to grant an amnesty to all Omayyads who should come in to him at Abu Fotros (Antipatris) and acknowledge the new caliph,and even promised them the restitution of all their property.

The outcome of the Committee's work was the great Protest, signed by 1500 bishops, priests and leading laymen, in which the loyalty of Catholics to the crown and constitution was strenuously affirmed and the ultramontane point of view repudiated in the startling declaration, " We acknowledge no infallibility in the pope."