acquittance

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So these 'great' men magnanimously salved their qualms of conscience, and satisfied the questions of their pride; and it is further added, his pension was ever after paid without further acquittance.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton

We had a right to set the slaves free; but the payment of the indemnity was no full acquittance of our obligations for the condition of a society which we had ourselves created.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony

From the three debts384 acquittance earn, And with thy wrath the wicked burn, O'er all of us thy rule extend, And cheer with boons each faithful friend.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

The paymaster could not, through the multiplicity of forms and the exaction of impossible conditions, get a prompt acquittance.

From Burke by Morley, John

Nor shall we build on these our confidence Who give less reins to reason than to sense: Yet for redemption of their husbands' lands, Seal our acquittance with your graceful hands.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert