Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Requital; return; repayment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Return; requital; quittance.

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  • noun obsolete Return; requital; quittance.

Etymologies

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quit +‎ -al?

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Examples

  • Within 18 months of their joint quittal from the Maoist Party, Goit and Jwalasingh split again.

    Jwala Singh Punished for Looting Properties 2008

  • But, he contended, there nas a main difference between such publications and the reading of the document alluded to, the former having a direct tendency to load a person with infamy after an ac - quittal had been pronounced.

    The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ... 1813

  • Oxford - Page 194Indictment was brought in BR by juftices of the peace in Oxford; and after the fame jti/lices brought in there a record if the ac-quittal of the fame ... more pages: 21 37 63 83 99 157 210 491 Canterbury - Page 120In cafe farßopping a way in tie city of Canterbury, leading from fuch a ftreet to fuch a ilreet, the defendant pleaded not guilty. ... more pages: 52 211 443 Venice - Page 1And the defendant pleaded in bar, that the faid Ruffel 'was not in Venice; upon which the plaintiff demurred.

    A general abridgment of law and equity : alphabetically digested under proper titles : with notes and references to the whole 1791

  • I had at the fame time in view, to lighten the burden of the reimburlc - ments at ftated periods with refpeft to the royal treafury, without altering the terms of their ac - quittal with regard to the creditors; another ex - pedient which was good at the time when there was credit in France, and which, had it been adopted in the year 1787, would have faved Go - vernment the difgrace of failing in this part of the engagements of the State, which I was of opinion ought not to be feparated from the an - nual expcnce, but which, fince it has been de - tached from it, has been counted for nothing.

    Considerations on the Present and Future State of France Charles Alexandre de Calonne 1791

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