Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of recognition; absence of perception or notice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A failure to recognize; absence of recognition.
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- noun A failure to
recognize ; absence ofrecognition .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Concerning the absolute irrecognition of the Episcopate, as entitled to any share in either legislation or discipline, by the
Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885. Diocese Of Connecticut
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All alike, by a dogged persistence in doing as they like, have come to ignore the existence of Authority or Right Reason; and this irrecognition of what ought to be the rule of life operates not only in the political sphere, but also, and conspicuously, in the spheres of morals, taste, society, and literature.
Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904
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Authority or Right Reason; and this irrecognition of what ought to be the rule of life operates not only in the political sphere, but also, and conspicuously, in the spheres of morals, taste, society, and literature.
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886
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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential; and there is no moral more touching than that the contemporary recognition of such a nature, so endowed and so faithful to its endowment, should be summed up in the sentence of Florence: _Igne comburatur sic quod moriatur_. [
Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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