Literary notes about acknowledged (AI summary)
The word "acknowledged" in literature functions as a versatile signal of recognition, admission, and formal acceptance. At times, it conveys a personal admission of facts or faults, as when a character confesses guilt or personal transformation [1],[2],[3]. In other instances, it marks the recognition of external authority or reputation, such as the formal acknowledgment of a sovereign’s rule, scholarly merit, or established truth [4],[5],[6],[7]. The term also helps denote social roles and relationships, highlighting interpersonal bonds or the securing of rightful standing, whether in matters of love or societal position [8],[9],[10]. Its use thus bridges the personal with the political, the internal with the external, making it a powerful, multifaceted tool in literary expression.
- Being again questioned, he frankly acknowledged his guilt.
— from A Diplomat in Japan by Ernest Mason Satow - “He has acknowledged himself to be in the wrong.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - At first he was weak enough to abjure, but afterwards repented, and acknowledged the truth.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe - Anton Chekhov studied medicine, but devoted himself largely to writing, in which, he acknowledged, his scientific training was of great service.
— from Best Russian Short Stories - 5 The authority of Artaxerxes was solemnly acknowledged in a great assembly held at Balch in Khorasan.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.—
— from A Beginner's Psychology by Edward Bradford Titchener - To persevere in arms, and to resist a lawful emperor, acknowledged by the senate, would alone render him criminal.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Then we parted, and from that day forward freely and openly gratified our desires as an acknowledged pair of lovers.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner - Both of these my seniors very soon acknowledged me to be their chief, and hence the style of splendour I have described.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray - Clara, who felt towards him in some degree like a young mother, gratefully acknowledged our kindness towards him.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
