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acknowne

acknowne is the obsolete form of acknown.

Meaning of acknown

Verb

acknown

  1. (obsolete) Recognized, confessed, disclosed, revealed, realized
    • Three years in his employment a secret agent in the Post Office Department, who obtained for him the first knowledge of the star route frauds, and placed it at his disposal before it Acknown to be suspected by either the public or the Government.1883 June 4, “Imprudent Mr. Hendricks”, in New York Times (Features), New York
  2. (obsolete) Acknowledged; confessed (often with "of" or "on"), revealed, disclosed, realized
    • Be not acknown on't: I have use for it.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Questions about acknowne

What is acknowne the obsolete form of?
Acknowne is the obsolete form of acknown.

Words near acknowne in the dictionary

  1. acknowledgings
  2. acknowledgment
  3. acknowledgments
  4. acknowlege
  5. acknown
  6. acknowne
  7. acknows
  8. Ackroyd
  9. acks
  10. ackshly
  11. ackshually

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acknowne (page history and authors); acknown (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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