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Cognizance

noun

Having knowledge of. Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, consciousness, knowingness. "His sudden consciousness of the problem he faced" , "Their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive"

Range of what one can know or understand. Synonym: ken.

Range or scope of what is perceived.

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... other judgment-seat on earth were more horrible and fearful sentences to be expected." Besides the attention it paid to Protestants it instituted very severe processes against Judaizing Christians and took cognizance also of seduction, of pimping, of sodomy, and of infringment of the ecclesiastical ...

— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

... the soil like the claws of an animal ready to leap upon its prey. His eyes penetrated the wrinkled texture of the rock, penetrated its skin, so it seemed to him, its very flesh. He touched it, felt it, took cognizance and possession of ...

— The Hollow Needle • Maurice Leblanc

... redress, or the punishment of the aggressor, so long as the evidence of a Negro is not valid against a white man. If a white master only take care, that no other white man sees him commit an atrocity of the kind mentioned, he is safe from the cognizance of the law. He may commit such atrocity in the sight of a thousand black spectators, and no harm will happen to him from it. In fact, the slaves in our Islands have no more real protection or redress from law, than when the Abolitionists first took up the question of the slave trade. It is ...

— Thoughts On The Necessity Of Improving The Condition Of The Slaves • Thomas Clarkson

... to his abundant feed, and when I loaded him to continue our journey down the river he was full and sleek. It was interesting to observe how the bullocks on all previous occasions, almost invariably took cognizance of the place where one of their number had been killed. They would visit it either during the night or the next day, walk round the spot, lift their tails, snuff the air with an occasional shake of their horns, and sometimes, set off in ...

— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt

... hope it requires no authority," Gifford retorted. "Having cognizance of what has been going on, ...

— The Hunt Ball Mystery • Magnay, William

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