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English
Etymology
From Latin agnitio, from agnoscere. See notion.
Noun
agnition (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Acknowledgement.
1569, Richard Grafton, “The Seuenth Age, and Seuenth Part of this Chronicle”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande , volume I, London: Henry Denham, , for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 75:[Jesus] was borne in Bethlem a City of Juda: where incontinent by the glorification of the Angels, the agnition of the Shepeherds, the veneration of the wiſe men, the prophecy of holy Simeon, and the admiration of the Doctours, he was had in honour.
References
“agnition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.