acquittance

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In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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

If he be innocent, it is his bounden right to receive full acquittance here in the presence of those before whom he has been arraigned.

From Beatrix of Clare by Underwood, Clarence F.

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

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