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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ACKNOWL'EDGMENT, n.
1. The act of owning; confession; as, the acknowledgment of a fault.
2. The owning, with approbation, or in the true character; as the acknowledgment of a God, or of a public minister.
3. Concession; admission of the truth; as, of a fact, position, or principle.
4. The owning of a benefit received, accompanied with gratitude; and hence it combines the ideas of an expression of thanks. Hence, it is used also for something given or done in return for a favor.
5. A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer.
Acknowledgment-money, in some parts of England, is a sum paid by tenants, on the death of their landlord, as an acknowledgment of their new lords.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged; "the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work"; "she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own" [syn: recognition, acknowledgment, acknowledgement]
2: a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases" [syn: citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotation]
3: a statement acknowledging something or someone; "she must have seen him but she gave no sign of acknowledgment"; "the preface contained an acknowledgment of those who had helped her" [syn: acknowledgment, acknowledgement]

Merriam Webster's

or acknowledgement noun Date: 1594 1. a. the act of acknowledging b. recognition or favorable notice of an act or achievement 2. a thing done or given in recognition of something received 3. a declaration or avowal of one's act or of a fact to give it legal validity

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Acknowledgment Ac*knowl"edg*ment (-ment), n. 1. The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. ``An acknowledgment of fault.'' --Froude. 2. The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness. Immediately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. --Hooker. 3. The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; expression of thanks. --Shak. 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 acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. Acknowledgment 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Recognition, recognizance. 2. Admission, avowal, concession, allowance, acceptance, indorsement. 3. Expression of thanks or gratitude.

Moby Thesaurus

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