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knowledge
English
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) knolege, knowlage, knowleche, knowledg, knowlege, knowliche, knowlych, knowlech
- (obsolete, uncommon, Scottish) knaulege, knaulage, knawlage
- (obsolete, uncommon) knoleche, knoleige, knowlache, knolych
- (obsolete, verb) knawlache
Etymology
From Middle English knowleche, knaweleche, cnawlece (“knowledge”), from knowen (“to know, recognise”) + -leche. Related to Middle English knowlechen (“to find out, acknowledge”). For more on the Middle English suffix -leche, compare freelage. Compare also Old English cn?wel??, cn?wel??ing (“acknowledging, acknowledgement”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?l?d?/
- (General American) enPR: n?l?ij, IPA(key): /?n?l?d?/
- (obsolete) enPR: n?l?ij, IPA(key): /?no?l?d?/
- Rhymes: -?l?d?
- Hyphenation UK: know?ledge, US: knowl?edge
Noun
knowledge (usually uncountable, plural knowledges)
- The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. [from 14th c.]
- Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something. [from 14th c.]
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
- He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
- Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information. [from 14th c.]
- Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc. [from 14th c.]
- (philosophical) Justified true belief
- (archaic or law) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge). [from 15th c.]
- 1573, George Gascoigne, "The Adventures of Master F.J.", An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction:
- Every time that he had knowledge of her he would leave, either in the bed, or in her cushion-cloth, or by her looking-glass, or in some place where she must needs find it, a piece of money […].
- 1573, George Gascoigne, "The Adventures of Master F.J.", An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction:
- (obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice. [15th-18th c.]
- 1580, Edward Hayes, "Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland", Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern, ed. Charles W Eliot, Cosimo 2005, p. 280:
- Item, if any ship be in danger […], every man to bear towards her, answering her with one light for a short time, and so to put it out again; thereby to give knowledge that they have seen her token.
- 1580, Edward Hayes, "Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland", Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern, ed. Charles W Eliot, Cosimo 2005, p. 280:
- The total of what is known; all information and products of learning. [from 16th c.]
- (countable) Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science. [from 16th c.]
- There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges.
- (obsolete) Acknowledgement. [14th-16th c.]
- (obsolete) Notice, awareness. [17th c.]
- 1611, The Bible, Authorized Version, Ruth II.10:
- Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
- 1611, The Bible, Authorized Version, Ruth II.10:
- (Britain, informal) The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.
- 2002, Malcolm Bobbitt, Taxi! - The Story of the London Cab
- There is only one sure way to memorise the runs and that is to follow them, either on foot, cycle or motor cycle; hence, the familiar sight of would-be cabbies learning the knowledge during evenings and weekends.
- 2002, Malcolm Bobbitt, Taxi! - The Story of the London Cab
Quotations
- 1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, pages ix-x:
- There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). […] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics. These debates inform this attempt at worlding women—moving beyond white western power centres and their dominant knowledges […].
Usage notes
- Adjectives often used with “knowledge”: extensive, deep, superficial, theoretical, practical, useful, working, encyclopedic, public, private, scientific, tacit, explicit, general, specialized, special, broad, declarative, procedural, innate, etc.
Synonyms
- awareness
- cognizance
- ken
- knowingness
- learning
Antonyms
- ignorance
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- know
- knowing
Translations
Verb
knowledge (third-person singular simple present knowledges, present participle knowledging, simple past and past participle knowledged)
- (obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge. [13th-17th c.]
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 3:
- Then went oute to hym Jerusalem, and all Jury, and all the region rounde aboute Jordan, and were baptised of hym in Jordan, knoledging their synnes.
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 3:
See also
- data
- erudition
- information
- know-how
- perception
- wisdom
Further reading
- knowledge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- knowledge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
knowledge From the web:
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intimacy
English
Etymology
intimate +? -cy
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n.t?.m?.si/
Noun
intimacy (countable and uncountable, plural intimacies)
- (uncountable, countable) Feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Section 13.6[1]
- To adulterous lust the most sacred duties are sacrificed, because, before marriage, men, by a promiscuous intimacy with women, learned to consider love as a selfish gratification—learned to separate it not only from esteem, but from the affection merely built on habit, which mixes a little humanity with it.
- 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Truth of Intercourse” in Essays, English and American, The Harvard Classics, Volume 28, edited by Charles W. Eliot, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1910, p. 287,[2]
- The habitual liar may be a very honest fellow, and live truly with his wife and friends; while another man who never told a formal falsehood in his life may yet be himself one lie—heart and face, from top to bottom. This is the kind of lie which poisons intimacy.
- 1908, Jack London, “To Build a Fire” in Lost Face, London: Mills & Boon, 1916,[3]
- […] there was keen intimacy between the dog and the man.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Section 13.6[1]
- (countable) Intimate relationship.
- 1787, Robert Burns, Letter to Dr. Moore, 23 April, 1787, in J. Logie Robertson (ed.), The Letters of Robert Burns, Selected and Arranged, with an Introduction, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 57,[5]
- I have formed many intimacies and friendships here, but I am afraid they are all of too tender a construction to bear carriage a hundred and fifty miles.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume I, Chapter 8,[6]
- “I have always thought it a very foolish intimacy,” said Mr. Knightley presently, “though I have kept my thoughts to myself; but I now perceive that it will be a very unfortunate one for Harriet […] ”
- 1899, Henry James, The Awkward Age, Book One, Chapter 2,[7]
- “ […] it isn’t my notion of the way to bring up a girl to give her up, in extreme youth, to an intimacy with a young married woman who’s both unhappy and silly, whose conversation has absolutely no limits, who says everything that comes into her head and talks to the poor child about God only knows what […] ”
- 1787, Robert Burns, Letter to Dr. Moore, 23 April, 1787, in J. Logie Robertson (ed.), The Letters of Robert Burns, Selected and Arranged, with an Introduction, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 57,[5]
- (countable, especially plural) Intimate detail, (item of) intimate information.
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part One, Chapter 4,
- He recognized the tone as the one used by friendly sisters to discuss the infirmities of their husbands. It was Shama’s plea to a sister to exchange intimacies, to show support.
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part One, Chapter 4,
Antonyms
- solitude
Related terms
- intimate
- intimation
Translations
Anagrams
- imitancy, minacity
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- what intimacy means
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- what intimacy means to a man
- what intimacy feels like
- what intimacy is allowed in islam
- what's intimacy in a relationship
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- what's intimacy with god
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