acknowledge vs own

acknowledge

verb
  • To own as genuine or valid; to assent to (a legal instrument) to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form. 

  • To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to. 

  • To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or a favour) 

  • To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in 

  • To report (the receipt of a message to its sender). 

own

verb
  • To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset. 

  • To confess. 

  • To take responsibility for. 

  • To be very good. 

  • To virtually or figuratively enslave. 

  • To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny. 

  • To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. 

  • To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn. 

  • To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn. 

  • To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership. 

  • To admit; concede; acknowledge. 

  • To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of. 

  • To claim as one's own. 

  • To recognise; acknowledge. 

adj
  • Not shared. 

  • Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence. 

How often have the words acknowledge and own occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )