quittance
Example Sentences
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We will acknowledge your title as good, and we will demand of you quittance for the above sum, which you will grant us as king of France.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Frederic Austin Ogg
You shall prepare a full quittance for the Emperor, and Mowbray-sahib shall sign it.
From The Great Mogul by Louis Tracy
We were well quit of George Glen and his gang, though the price of the quittance was heavy.
From The Watchers A Novel by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Thus, silver certificates, without being "legal tender," are a means of legal quittance from obligations to the Federal Government.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
Having paid quittance, he was at liberty to be absorbed in his books.
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
