ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. iii. 17/1. See (I say) how God is vnacknowledged of vs in his benefites.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. § 160. The fear … of what was to come … from an unknown, at least an unacknowledg’d Successor, to the Crown.
1687. Rycaut, Hist. Turks, II. 228. The Ambassadour remained aboard unsaluted and unacknowledged by the publick Ministers of the City.
1751. Earl Orrery, Remarks Swift (1752), 76. From the same causes, Stella remained an unacknowledged wife.
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, X. xiii. A reciprocal confidence that left … not an action unrelated, not even a thought unacknowledged.
1835. T. Mitchell, Acharn. of Aristoph., 230, note. The consequent dread that prevailed lest any of those gifts should appear to pass unacknowledged.
1871. Tylor, Prim. Cult., I. 2. Nor … in investigating the lower functions even of man, are these leading ideas unacknowledged.
