acquittance
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The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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 Tyler, James Endell
Cleret left it, without acquittance; and his conduct was approved by his master.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
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
The paymaster could not, through the multiplicity of forms and the exaction of impossible conditions, get a prompt acquittance.
From Burke by Morley, John
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