knowledgement

English

Etymology

From knowledge +‎ -ment, likely inspired by acknowledgement.

Noun

knowledgement (countable and uncountable, plural knowledgements)

1. (non-native speakers' English) Misconstruction of knowledge.
   • 1997 May 12, Heme aqui, “bunch of doubts”, in comp.mail.pine‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-21:

     Hello. I am a pine user and I have tried to make some experiments with this email program. My knowledgements arevery^[sic] small on this. I just would like to know where to go in order to add, in the header, the line

   • 1999 June 22, Moui, “British Nationality”, in soc.culture.thai‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-21:

     From my knowledgement, do not change your citizenship if you expect to return home. In my case, I remain continue my Thai ID, passport. Also, keep my name be listed in my parent house registration. If you change your citizenship, you may have to apply your visa when you want to visit home.

   • 2001 April 9, Willie Kim, “request for 'too many open files'”, in fa.freebsd.questions‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-21:

     anyway, if you have some knowledgements about these problem, would you be willing to send email back to me asap...I'll be looking forwarding to hearing from you soon..

   • 2002 January 22, Paulo Gomes, “Is Mac better than PC for Cubase and other music stuff?”, in alt.steinberg.cubase‎^[4] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-21:

     I've been following this thread since the begining^[sic] and I don't have nothing else to add to it, in fact I'm nobody compared to some of the folks here with a much deeper knowledgement than I do about hardware and software, still with all this lack of knowledgement (Is this the correct word?) I've always been able to run cubase (Rewiered^[sic] or not) VST'is,, etc, etc, preety^[sic] stable and to tell you the truth I don't have any crash, blue screen or whatever anoying^[sic] things on my PC.

   • 2008 January 23, fyfpoon@gmail.com, “Food price inflation in China”, in soc.culture.china‎^[5] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-21:

     So you admit that you are white and white trash. Good. Knowledgement is the first step in the right direction.