Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Recognition

Recognition (rek`og*nish"un) , noun

[Latin recognitio: compare French recognition. See Recognizance.]

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