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[The reference may be to financial terms, such as sinking fund (a phrase not introduced by Pitt), the English equivalent of 'caisse d'amortissement', or income tax ( 'impôt sur le revenu'), or to actual
Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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A third of the value of property is said to have been sometimes the price of its amortissement (Littré, "Dictionnaire de la langue française", Paris, 1889, s. f.).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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In Old French amortissement was used in connexion with licences termed chartes d'amortissement, validating an alienation, amortir being defined éteindre en tout ou en partie les droits de la seigneurie féodale ( "La Grande Encyclopédie", Paris,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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