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Definition
express recognition of someone or something; or admit something
- Delight,—top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.Chapters 7-9 -- The Chapel; The Pulpit; The Sermon (97% in)
- They were nearly all Islanders in the Pequod, ISOLATOES too, I call such, not acknowledging the common continent of men, but each ISOLATO living on a separate continent of his own.Chapters 25-27 -- Postscript; Knights and Squires; Knights and Squires (96% in)
There are no more uses of "acknowledge" in Moby Dick.
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