quittance

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When Khayyam quittance at Death's hand receives, And sheds his outworn life, as trees their leaves, Full gladly will he sift this world away, Ere dustmen sift his ashes in their sieves.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar

“Himself, nay—he sent it to me; but I gave the quittance as to Mr Louvaine.”

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

We have disregarded our oaths; upon her head be our perfidy; receive her in quittance of our debt to thee.

From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.

Having paid quittance, he was at liberty to be absorbed in his books.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

To appease a creditor meant to pay him; in the same manner as une quittance, a quittance or receipt, was originally quietantia, a quieting, from quietus, quiet.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max