quittance
Americannoun
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recompense or requital.
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discharge from a debt or obligation.
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a document certifying discharge from debt or obligation, as a receipt.
noun
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release from debt or other obligation
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a receipt or other document certifying this
Etymology
Origin of quittance
1175–1225; Middle English quitaunce < Old French quitance, equivalent to quit ( er ) to quit 1 + -ance -ance
Example Sentences
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Thus, silver certificates, without being "legal tender," are a means of legal quittance from obligations to the Federal Government.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
It was only by being a valuable object, and commonly only by being a medium of exchange, that the money could have become a means of legal quittance in the first place.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
We will acknowledge your title as good, and we will demand of you quittance for the above sum, which you will grant us as king of France.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Frederic Austin Ogg
"I shall not give Travers quittance in this matter till he has paid me wages for my toil."
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason
The abbot, having adopted this good counsel, gave to the King one hundred pounds for such a quittance.
From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Jocelin de Brakelond
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