Not to make this Acknowledgement of his kind Assistance, would be Ingratitude to my dear deceas’d Friend.
Miss Nebeker bowed in smiling acknowledgement of what appeared to her to be a flattering anticipation of her humor, and taking her manuscript from some hiding-place in her drapery, made a grimace and began to read.
It seemed like the breaking down of a machine whose trustworthiness had been hitherto infallible; his family were almost forced to the acknowledgement that he was but a mere human being after all.
She was a match-maker--a very keen and persistent one; but he felt that her excesses in this direction were to be viewed simply as an acknowledgement to fortune for having guided her own courses to such advantage.
The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation.
The Union between Scotland and England has been real and stable simply because it was the legislative acknowledgement and enforcement of a national fact.
Pitt was not only for a repeal of the Stamp Acts, but for an open and ungrudging acknowledgement of the claim to a partial independence which had been made by the colonists.
And perhaps it is rather from an old-fashioned and time-honoured affection for its standing than from any intrinsic merits of its own that some such general acknowledgement of its ascendancy is still allowed to prevail.
Had it been the indignant she played, he might have stooped to cajole the handsome queen of gypsies she was, without acknowledgement of her right to complain.
And here, again, came a perplexity, the acknowledgement of which in distinct thought would have been an act of disloyalty, according to Bell's conscience.
Hester Rose, who met Sylvia on rare occasions, came back each time with a candid, sad acknowledgement in her heart that it was no wonder that Sylvia was so much admired and loved.
That materialistic ideals have, in the light of experience, failed to satisfy the needs of mankind calls for an honest acknowledgement that a fresh effort must now be made to find the solutions to the agonizing problems of the planet.
The Covenant ended with a solemn acknowledgement of national sin, and a vow of reformation.
The result of Clifford's resignation, of James's acknowledgement of his conversion, had been to destroy all belief in the honesty of public men.
I came now to make my humble acknowledgement to you upon the arguments that passed between us so lately.
An acknowledgement that the whole doctrine of the Westminster Confession of Faith, and the Catechisms, larger and shorter, are agreeable unto, and founded upon the Scriptures.
And as the accusation is individual, so, likewise, must the acknowledgement be.
As far as possible detailed acknowledgement is made in the footnotes.
And he is especially quick when acknowledgement is due to one who is socially our inferior.
For in these matters and the like, dissimulation and concealment is the mark of the sinner, open acknowledgement and publication a sign that the writer is but exercising his wit.
There follows in the original a piece called The Pink, but in the Errata acknowledgement is made that King did not write it.
How, then, can we define these principles, when persons who would now disavow them fall by some fatality into an unavoidable acknowledgement of them?
Every one knows in the great crisis which occurred last year in the east of Europe, it was largely, if not mainly, by the acknowledgement of all Europe, due to the steps taken by my right hon.
But, nevertheless, it implies respect, and an acknowledgement of the position of her who is so respected.
Nothing was done on that day in the way of instruction; but there was much of half-jocose acknowledgement of past idleness, and a profusion of resolutions of future diligence.
An equal whom he had injured waited for his remarks, gave ready replies; and he, bowing to the visible equality, chafed at a sense of inferiority following his acknowledgement of it.
A healthy spot, Croridge, or there were virtues in the Meek family, he reflected, and had a shudder that he did not trace to its cause, beyond an acknowledgement of a desire for the warm smell of incense.
I write a few lines of gratefulacknowledgement to your good mother for her favours to me in the late happy period.
Besides, despite his acknowledgement of her beauty, Mrs. Warwick was not quite his ideal of the perfectly beautiful woman.
Lord Larrian rose and received a hurried acknowledgement of his courtesy from the usurper of his place.
However, that happens to be only the most recent acknowledgement that has come to hand.
The common counterargument to the invincible fact of the Jewish character of the Russian revolution--an argument which is destined to disappear now that Jewish acknowledgement is coming thick and fast--is that the Jews in Russia suffer too.
With the physical unification of the planet in this century andacknowledgement of the interdependence of all who live on it, the history of humanity as one people is now beginning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acknowledgement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
