quittance

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Full quittance-- he could see Pamphlett's face as he fetched forth the piece of paper and made out that quittance, signing his name across a postage stamp Not once in the course of his vision-building did it cross Nicky-Nan's mind that the money was--that it could be--less than legitimately his.

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  1. noun Release from a debt, an obligation, or a penalty.
  2. noun A document or receipt certifying such release.
  3. noun Something given as requital or recompense; a repayment.

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  • And therefore I trust that you will now deliver me these 200 florins to his Imperial Majesty's order and quittance, that so I may receive a fitting reward and satisfaction for my care, pains, and work—as, no doubt, was his Imperial Majesty's intention. —  Albert Durer
  • With the obligation of this quittance, the latter class hold in fee the cottages and plots of land which they occupy, and appear to be a thriving and comfortable race. —  Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2
  • We may trust Him to have a care of the quittance," [receipt The children now claimed their share of notice. —  The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
  • Cry quittance, madam, then, and love not him. —  Edward the Second
  • They signed the desired quittance, cabled Schmidt again to ask if Senhor Pondillo was in need of other ships of the Unser Fritz class, and the members of the firm indulged that evening in the best dinner that the tip-top restaurant of Hamburg could supply They were puzzled next day by certain statements in the newspapers, and were called on to explain to a number of journalists that the ship had left their ownership. —  The Stowaway Girl
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English quitance, from Old French, from quiter, to free; see quit.

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  1. from Middle English quytance, from French quittance (= Spanish quitanza = Portuguese quitança = Italian quitanza), a release, receipt, from quitter, quit, release: see quit, v.
  2. from quittance, n.
 

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