acquittance

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And here--for I cannot transact business with thee without a receipt--on this wax tablet I have written the acquittance.

From Felicitas A Tale of the German Migrations: A.D. 476 by Dahn, Felix

So these 'great' men magnanimously salved their qualms of conscience, and satisfied the questions of their pride; and it is further added, his pension was ever after paid without further acquittance.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton

Cleret left it, without acquittance; and his conduct was approved by his master.

From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown

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

From the three debts384 acquittance earn, And with thy wrath the wicked burn, O'er all of us thy rule extend, And cheer with boons each faithful friend.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)