recognizance

noun

1. A token; a symbol; a pledge.

   countable, uncountable

   That recognizance and pledge of love / Which I first gave her.

2. An acknowledgment of a person or thing; an avowal; a profession; a recognition.

   countable, uncountable

Where it comes from

From Middle English reconisaunce, from Old French reconissance. Doublet of reconnaissance.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry recognizance (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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