acquittance
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That this little foggy island of England should have given birth to such a man is of itself a moiety of our acquittance among the nations.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by David Masson
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
The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
About eleven years afterwards, the same merchant gave an acquittance to Henry VIII. of England, for the sum of 152,180 l.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson
Footnote 326: The Duke of Clarence was at Bourdeaux, February 5, 1413, and signed an acquittance there, April 14, 1413.
From Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth by James Endell Tyler
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