misacknowledge
verbUK /ˌmɪsəkˈnɒlɪdʒ/
Etymology From mis- + acknowledge.
1
Rare To fail to acknowledge; to acknowledge wrongly.
- I saw him at Ferrara, in so pitteous a plight[…]; misacknowledging [translating mesconnoissant] both himselfe and his labours, which unwitting to him, and even to his face, have been published both uncorrected and maimed.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- How many do I ordinarily see that mis-acknowledge poverty; how many that wish for death or that pass it without any alarm or affliction?1901, Robert S Littell, The Living Age, volume CCXXVIII: