quittance

plural quittances

1. A release or acquittal.

   Synonyms: acquittance, exculpation, exoneration, absolution, acquittance, acquitment, acquittal, assoilment

2. A discharge from a debt or obligation; a document that shows this discharge.

   I marvel why I answer’d not again; But that’s all one: omittance is no quittance.

   c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]

3. obsoleteRecompense; return; repayment.

   Qu[een]. Ah Mortimer! now breaks the kings hate forth, And he confesseth that he loues me not. Mor[timer] iu[nior]. Crie quittance Madam then, & loue not him.

   1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page)

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   […] Plutus, the god of gold, Is but his steward: no meed but he repays Sevenfold above itself; no gift to him But breeds the giver a return exceeding All use of quittance.

   c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]

present singular third person quittances · participle present quittancing · participle past quittanced · past quittanced

1. obsoletetransitiveTo acquit; to repay.