acquittance
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And with arms folded proudly on his breast, he waited for the acquittance that seemed to be his due.
From Beatrix of Clare by Clarence F. Underwood
He sent a sigh and a love-token, commending himself to her best thoughts, until he should gain his acquittance so far as to visit Lathom.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
From the three debts384 acquittance earn, And with thy wrath the wicked burn, O'er all of us thy rule extend, And cheer with boons each faithful friend.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
The paymaster could not, through the multiplicity of forms and the exaction of impossible conditions, get a prompt acquittance.
From Burke by John Morley
Bodlyes Chest, as appeares by Dr. Chaworthes acquittance in the same box.'
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray
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