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   Acknow , v. t. [Pref. a- + know; AS. oncnāwan.]
   To recognize. [Obs.] “You will not be acknown, sir.” 
   B. Jonson.
   
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   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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