cognoscence

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/ˈkɒɡnəsəns/

noun

Cognizance (awareness).

OriginLatin cognoscentia →
Scrabble 18
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Meanings

nouncognoscence (uncountable)
  1. uncountableCognizance (awareness).

    Beſides, there being that communication betwixt the Earth and the Aire, that at leaſt the fame of things will arrive to their cognoſcence that have left this life; […]

    1659, Henry More, chapter XI, in The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC, book III, paragraph 4, page 438

Origin

  1. Latincognoscentia
  2. Englishcognoscence

From Latin cognoscentia, from cognōscere (“to know”). See also cognizance. By surface analysis, co- + Latin gnōsc(ere) + -ence.

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Chicago

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