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aknow

aknow is the obsolete form of acknow.

Meaning of acknow

Verb

acknow (third-person singular simple present acknows, present participle acknowing, simple past acknew, past participle acknown)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To recognize.
    • You will not be acknown, sir; why, 'tis wise.
      Thus do all gamesters, at all games, dissemble:
      No man will seem to win.1606, Ben Jonson, Volpone, act 5, scene 4
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To acknowledge; confess (often with "of" or "on"), reveal, disclose, realize
    • We say of a stubborn body that standeth still in the denying of his fault, This man will not acknowledge his fault, or, He will not be acknown of his fault.1532, Sir Thomas More, The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer

Forms of aknow

third-person singular presentaknows
present participleaknowing
pastaknew
past participleaknown

Questions about aknow

What is aknow the obsolete form of?
Aknow is the obsolete form of acknow.

Words near aknow in the dictionary

  1. akle
  2. aklomide
  3. Akmenė
  4. Akmola
  5. aknee
  6. aknow
  7. aknowledge
  8. Aknīste
  9. akoasm
  10. akoasmic
  11. akoasms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aknow (page history and authors); acknow (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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