acquittance

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Which he presumes already vain and void, Because not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some immediate stroke; but soon shall find Forbearance no acquittance, ere day end.

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John

The conversation soon turned on a topic, on which the emigrants every where were peculiarly anxious to be set right with English feeling, namely, their acquittance from the charge of having fled unnecessarily.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

Nay,—I'll not haste thee to thy last acquittance, Ill-fated wretch!—I do repent mine haste.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John

Consequently, whatever is received from that trade must be placed to the credit and acquittance of the Philipinas, against the amount charged to them.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Abreu, Antonio Alvarez de

That this little foggy island of England should have given birth to such a man is of itself a moiety of our acquittance among the nations.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David