acquittance
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Gurth at length complied; and telling out eighty zecchins upon the table, the Jew delivered out to him an acquittance for the horse and suit of armour.
From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir
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
The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
To be lenient and merciful is his inclination, and we are happy to communicate to you this most favorable tender for an acquittance of his claim.
From Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof by Head, Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey)
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 Ferguson, Robert
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