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noun

Acquittance n.

The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. "You can produce acquittances For such a sum, from special officers."

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Etymology of 'Acquittance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Acquittance" Quotes from Famous Books

... sir," added mine host, "I would take leave to remind your grandeur that the score of last night's supper, and a trifle my lord took for his breakfast, with the shoeing and meat of the horse, and the price of your night's lodging, awaits your noble acquittance." ...

— Sir Ludar - A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess • Talbot Baines Reed

... money, which his father had owed him by a note under his own hand, while he led a lewd debauched life, saw the ghost of his father one night, upon this very account, which told him of the money being paid, and where the acquittance lay. When he got up in the morning, he went and found the acquittance in that very place that his father's ghost had directed him to, and so was freed from the litigious suit of one that made unjust demands ...

— Miscellanies upon Various Subjects • John Aubrey

Words linked to "Acquittance" : jurisprudence, official document, law, release, instrument, legal document