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n. - Having knowledge of; Range or scope of what is perceived; Range of what one can know or understand.

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Usage examples (33)
  • Noun : The guests took cognizance of the snide remark. ,Such understanding is beyond his cognizance
  • Clearly, under the law, the agency that has cognizance is the NBDB.
  • However, we have here much the same management of Paul's case as we had in the foregoing chapter; cognizance is here taken of it, I.
  • Gnosis expresses the idea of cognizance by intuition, 771-m.
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