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Definition
express recognition of someone or something; or admit something
- Our founder Dardanus, as fame has sung, And Greeks acknowledge, from Electra sprung: Electra from the loins of Atlas came; Atlas, whose head sustains the starry frame.Book 8 (18% in)
- By this, Aeneas and his train appear; And now the women, seiz'd with shame and fear, Dispers'd, to woods and caverns take their flight, Abhor their actions, and avoid the light; Their friends acknowledge, and their error find, And shake the goddess from their alter'd mind.Book 5 (78% in)
There are no more uses of "acknowledge" in The Aeneid.
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