Word Meanings - IRRECOGNITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A failure to recognize; absence of recognition. Lamb.

ABSENCE
1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law."
RECOGNIZER
One who recognizes; a recognizor.
FAILURE
1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
RECOGNIZE
1. To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of. Speak, vassal; recognize thy sovereign queen. Harte. 2. To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit,
RECOGNITION
The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice. The lives of such saints had, at the time of their yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of God. Hooker.
DEFAILURE
Failure. Barrow.
IRRECOGNITION
A failure to recognize; absence of recognition. Lamb.
PRECOGNITION
A preliminary examination of a criminal case with reference to a prosecution. Erskine. (more info) 1. Previous cognition. Fotherby.