Meaning of Quittance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A release or acquittal.
2. A discharge from a debt or obligation; a document that shows this discharge.
3. Recompense; return; repayment.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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.”

“[…] 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.”

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