Acquittal vs Acknowledge - What's the difference?
acquittal | acknowledge |
(legal) A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process.
Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends.
(rare) Avoidance of danger; deliverance.
To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a god.
:* I acknowledge my transgressions. - ''Psalm 51:3 .
:* ''For ends generally acknowledged to be good. -
To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to.
:* In all thy ways acknowledge Him. - ''Proverbs 3:6
:* By my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee. - , III-v
To own with gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor.
:* ''They his gifts acknowledged none. -
To notify receipt, as of a letter.
To own as genuine or valid; to assent to, as a legal instrument, to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form; as, to acknowledge a deed.