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Quittance

noun
1.
A document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt.
2.
Payment of a debt or obligation.  Synonym: repayment.





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"Quittance" Quotes from Famous Books



... Falconnet, beseeching him to spare us. He put her off smoothly at first, saying 'twas the Indians' affair—that they would not be balked of their vengeance by any interference of his. But when she only begged the more piteously, he showed his true colors, rapping out that we should have as swift a quittance as we had meant to give him, and that within the hour she should be the mistress of Appleby and free to ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde


Words linked to "Quittance" :   payment, redemption, document


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