quittance

Example Sentences

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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.

I've sent him his quittance papers, and he's your enemy for all time.

From A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs by Eggleston, George Cary

"Omittance is no quittance," said Schalk, darting up at his half-brother a venomous look.

From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Hauff, Wilhelm

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

You have most learnedly proverbde it, commending the virtue of patience and forbearance, but yet you know forbearance is no quittance.

From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)