All 7 Uses of

acknowledge

in

Great Expectations

As we neared home, Joe vaguely acknowledging the occasion as an impressive and ceremonious one, went on ahead to open the front door.†
Chpt 18 *

acknowledging = recognizing

I acknowledged his attention incoherently, and began to think this was a dream.†
Chpt 21

acknowledged = recognized

"I am my own engineer, and my own carpenter, and my own plumber, and my own gardener, and my own Jack of all Trades," said Wemmick, in acknowledging my compliments.†
Chpt 25

acknowledging = recognizing

The waiter (it was he who had brought up the Great Remonstrance from the Commercials, on the day when I was bound) appeared surprised, and took the earliest opportunity of putting a dirty old copy of a local newspaper so directly in my way, that I took it up and read this paragraph:— Our readers will learn, not altogether without interest, in reference to the recent romantic rise in fortune of a young artificer in iron of this neighborhood (what a theme, by the way, for the magic pen of our as yet not universally acknowledged townsman TOOBY, the poet of our columns!)†
Chpt 28

acknowledged = recognized

I must acknowledge, by the by, that the good sense of what I have just said is not my own, but my father's.†
Chpt 30

acknowledge = recognize

I had the happiness to know you in former times, and the Drama has ever had a claim which has ever been acknowledged, on the noble and the affluent.†
Chpt 31

acknowledged = recognized

I had the highest opinion of the wisdom of this same Margin, but I am bound to acknowledge that on looking back, I deem it to have been an expensive device.†
Chpt 34

acknowledge = recognize

Definitions:

(1) (acknowledge as in: acknowledge her or the truth)
express recognition or appreciation of someone or something; or admit something
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Specialized senses include sending an "acknowledgement" (letter or other message) to indicate that something was received and the "acknowledgements" section at the beginning of a book where an author recognizes and thanks other people who helped in creating the book or ideas contained in it.