acquittance

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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

From the three debts384 acquittance earn, And with thy wrath the wicked burn, O'er all of us thy rule extend, And cheer with boons each faithful friend.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Nor shall we build on these our confidence Who give less reins to reason than to sense: Yet for redemption of their husbands' lands, Seal our acquittance with your graceful hands.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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