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UK
/kˈɒɡnɪsəns/
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NOUN
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having knowledge of
his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced
their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive
he had no awareness of his mistakes
How To Use cognisance In A Sentence
- He should have consented to know but the grand personal adventure on the grand personal basis: nothing short of this, no poor cognisance of confusable, pettifogging things, the sphere of earth-grubbing questions and two-penny issues, would begin to be, on any side, Olympian enough. The Finer Grain
- Director of Public Prosecutions and that Mda had been released on his own recognisance. ANC Daily News Briefing
- And in the midst, in the head of the centre light, shone out brighter than all, with an inherent radiance of its own, the cognisance of the Blandamers, the sea-green and silver of the nebuly coat. The Nebuly Coat
- They just ground on relentlessly and there seemed to be no cognisance of the fact that there was a terrible dimension to this and that someone was under such stress.
- A subsequent caller expressed a hope that said police should meet up with said caller in a dark alley some day ... and Mike Gallagher agreed whole-heartedly (and without the slightest hint of cognisance as to what was beingsaid). The Volokh Conspiracy » Waco
- A committee was at the same time appointed to manage and let to farm to the best advantage for the City a number of offices, including those of garbling, package and scavage, metage of grain, coal, salt and fruit, as well as all fines, issues, amerciaments and estreated recognisances under the greenwax. London and the Kingdom - Volume II
- The government failed to take cognisance of their protest.
- A spokeswoman for Saxo said the bank had taken '' cognisance '' of the FSA's orders and would comply '' expediently ''. The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
- Was it prudently considered that the dullest of critics can read only as long as his eyes are open? and that the function of judge must incessantly bring under his cognisance papaverous volumes, with which only a super-human endowment of vigilance could hope successfully to contend? so that the goddess is driven, by the necessity of the game, to admit within the circuit of her somnolent sway, a virtue to which she is naturally and peculiarly hostile? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
- “That will be my cousin Jeanie Deans, Mr. Archibald,” said Mrs. Glass, with a courtesy of recognisance. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
