acquittance
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The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
And here--for I cannot transact business with thee without a receipt--on this wax tablet I have written the acquittance.
From Felicitas A Tale of the German Migrations: A.D. 476 by Felix Dahn
Gurth at length complied; and telling out eighty zecchins upon the table, the Jew delivered out to him an acquittance for the horse and suit of armour.
From Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
But the burdens upon landed property rose so high, that for a long time, land together with house and farm, bore little value, and sometimes were offered in vain as acquittance for service and imposts.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
And, therefore, after this general acquittance of all believers, ver.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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