acquittance
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The enemy, recovering from their confusion, seized him in default of his master, and without further ado bore him away as a visible acquittance of themselves to the abbot.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, 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
And with arms folded proudly on his breast, he waited for the acquittance that seemed to be his due.
From Beatrix of Clare by Underwood, Clarence F.
"Now must your conscience my acquittance seal."—Act iv.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
Bodlyes Chest, as appeares by Dr. Chaworthes acquittance in the same box.'
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn
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