acquittance

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The actual line is: “Awaiting reprisal, death will be their acquittance.”

From Salon

The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.

From Project Gutenberg

Consequently, whatever is received from that trade must be placed to the credit and acquittance of the Philipinas, against the amount charged to them.

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Nay,—I'll not haste thee to thy last acquittance, Ill-fated wretch!—I do repent mine haste.

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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.

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