acquittance
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I come not in resentment, but for acquittance.
From The Gamester (1753) by Charles H. Peake
There is one Richard Osannas, a witness to an acquittance in the later Anglo-Saxon times, the name being probably from the Frankish Osanna, which seems, however, to have been originally a woman's name.
From Surnames as a Science by Robert Ferguson
The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The paymaster could not, through the multiplicity of forms and the exaction of impossible conditions, get a prompt acquittance.
From Burke by John Morley
Sir, I am paid for't, The summes you borrowed, are return'd; The bonds Cancel'd, and your acquittance formerly seal'd: Look here Sir, Gaspero is witness to it.
From The Laws of Candy Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) by Francis Beaumont
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