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Webster 1913 Edition
Quittance
1.
Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance.
Omittance is no
quittance
. Shakespeare
2.
Recompense; return; repayment.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Quit′tance
,Verb.
T.
To repay; to requite.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Quittance
QUIT'TANCE
,Noun.
1.
Discharge from a debt or obligation; an acquittance. [See Acquittance, which is chiefly used.]2.
Recompense; return; repayment.QUIT'TANCE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2025
quittance
quittance
English
Noun
quittance (plural quittances)
- a release or acquittal
- a discharge from a debt or obligation; a document that shows this discharge
- (obsolete) recompense; return; repayment
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens, I. i. 285:
- No meed but he repays / Sevenfold above itself; no gift to him / But breeds the giver a return exceeding / All use of quittance.
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens, I. i. 285: