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Quittance   Listen
noun
Quittance  n.  
1.
Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance. "Omittance is no quittance."
2.
Recompense; return; repayment. (Obs.)





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"Quittance" Quotes from Famous Books



... character, to treat the advance of money for the journey as a loan, and to insist on a bond and the deposit of the Church plate as a security for repayment. Cassiodorus evidently feels this; and very probably the restoration of the vessels and the quittance of the debt had been insisted on by him. But the more he despises his master's shabbiness, the more he struggles through a maze of almost nonsensical sentences, to prove that he has committed some very glorious action in lending the money and then ...
— The Letters of Cassiodorus - Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of - Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator • Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)


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


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