acquittance
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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 Rogers, William Henry Hamilton
I come not in resentment, but for acquittance.
From The Gamester (1753) by Peake, Charles H.
Which he presumes already vain and void, Because not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some immediate stroke; but soon shall find Forbearance no acquittance, ere day end.
From Paradise Lost by Milton, John
But the burdens upon landed property rose so high, that for a long time, land together with house and farm, bore little value, and sometimes were offered in vain as acquittance for service and imposts.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
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 Stevenson, William
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