英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪsəkˈnɒlɪdʒ/

動詞

misacknowledge (三人称単数 現在形 misacknowledges, 現在分詞 misacknowledging, 過去形および過去分詞形 misacknowledged)

1. (まれに) To fail to acknowledge; to acknowledge wrongly.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:

     I saw him at Ferrara, in so pitteous a plight […]; misacknowledging [transl. mesconnoissant] both himselfe and his labours, which unwitting to him, and even to his face, have been published both uncorrected and maimed.

   • 1901, Robert S Littell, The Living Age, vol.CCXXVIII:

     How many do I ordinarily see that mis-acknowledge poverty; how many that wish for death or that pass it without any alarm or affliction?