acquittance
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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 Beaumont, Francis
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
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 paymaster could not, through the multiplicity of forms and the exaction of impossible conditions, get a prompt acquittance.
From Burke by Morley, John
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 Masson, David
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