acquittance
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Nor shall we build on these our confidence Who give less reins to reason than to sense: Yet for redemption of their husbands' lands, Seal our acquittance with your graceful hands.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
To be lenient and merciful is his inclination, and we are happy to communicate to you this most favorable tender for an acquittance of his claim.
From Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof by Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey) Head
I come not in resentment, but for acquittance.
From The Gamester (1753) by Charles H. Peake
So these 'great' men magnanimously salved their qualms of conscience, and satisfied the questions of their pride; and it is further added, his pension was ever after paid without further acquittance.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
Sir, I am paid for't, The summes you borrowed, are return'd; The bonds Cancel'd, and your acquittance formerly seal'd: Look here Sir, Gaspero is witness to it.
From The Laws of Candy Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) by Francis Beaumont
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