acquittance

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We had a right to set the slaves free; but the payment of the indemnity was no full acquittance of our obligations for the condition of a society which we had ourselves created.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony

The conversation soon turned on a topic, on which the emigrants every where were peculiarly anxious to be set right with English feeling, namely, their acquittance from the charge of having fled unnecessarily.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

The paymaster could not, through the multiplicity of forms and the exaction of impossible conditions, get a prompt acquittance.

From Burke by Morley, John

Here I return my trust, nor ask   One penny for remittance; If I have well perform'd my task,   Pray send me an acquittance.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst