quittance
Example Sentences
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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.
In the first place, the quittance for our board and lodging.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Having paid quittance, he was at liberty to be absorbed in his books.
From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend
“That is a quittance for the chain,” he cried.
From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis
I have been with the governor, who is full of rejoicing at this unexpected quittance of the Bruce and his host of wolves.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
