quittance
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There is something base In mere existence—something in the face Of men and women which accepts the earth, And all its havings, as its right of birth, But not its quittance, not its resting-place.
From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric
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)
“Himself, nay—he sent it to me; but I gave the quittance as to Mr Louvaine.”
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
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 Bone, David W.
Satisfac′tion, state of being satisfied: gratification: comfort: that which satisfies: amends: atonement: payment, quittance: conviction: repairing a wrong, as by a duel.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
