quittance

Example Sentences

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At last the king demanded an account of all the sums that had passed through his hands during his chancellorship, though he had already received a quittance.

From The English Church in the Middle Ages by Hunt, William

After a brief greeting, I told him his business was done, and handed him the quittance I had received from Hawkwood.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

We have disregarded our oaths; upon her head be our perfidy; receive her in quittance of our debt to thee.

From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.

We were well quit of George Glen and his gang, though the price of the quittance was heavy.

From The Watchers A Novel by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

It was only by being a valuable object, and commonly only by being a medium of exchange, that the money could have become a means of legal quittance in the first place.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.