quittance
Example Sentences
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But "legal tender" money is not always an adequate means of quittance.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
He saith Aubrey sent the money by a messenger, unto whom he gave the quittance.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
I placed the cross back slowly, my honour was still white, and death that was coming would give me a full quittance for all my troubles.
From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
He would 'sign on' at Liverpool, giving his boarding-master a month's advance note for quittance.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by David W. Bone
Right easily can I find proof of quittance, and to spare.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason
