cognizance

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But since those cruelly oblivious documents took no cognizance of the African people living here, the region remains in a constant cycle of suffering, rebellion and suppression.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2022

Because it requires a cognizance of the body’s position from head to toe, the exercise helps to develop something called kinesthetic awareness — an understanding of how one’s body moves through space.

From New York Times • May 18, 2022

“No,” Rawitsch said, laughing, “there was just no cognizance of that. I considered myself to be an educator.”

From Slate • Nov. 17, 2021

I probably would have been involved in these liberation movements and had no cognizance at all that being nurtured in its bosom was a force of triumphal reaction.

From Salon • Jan. 25, 2021

The cognizance was of a silver woman on a sable field, with a knight kneeling at her feet In her simplicity, Elaine had been delighted by the compliment cm the shield.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White