quittance

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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

"Well, then, it shall be yours, if you give up all claim to the hand of Meenie Ritchie, and give me in writing an entire quittance on that score."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various

Whatever gives legal quittance from contract obligation, or from legal obligation as for taxes, performs this function.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

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

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

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.