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quittance
/ˈkwɪtəns/
noun 3verb 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
all
VERB + QUITTANCE
boards, use
QUITTANCE + NOUN
loue, madam
PREP.
in
ADV.
then
Definitions
noun
1
A release or acquittal.
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.
3
Recompense; 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.
[…] 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.
verb
1
To acquit; to repay.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — payment of a debt or obligation
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
401
I marvel why I answer’d not again; But that’s all one: omittance is no quittance.
Wiktionary02
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.
Wiktionary03
[…] 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.
Wiktionary04
"But ne'er the town, by Destiny assigned, / your walls shall gird, till famine's pangs constrain / to gnaw your boards, in quittance for our slain."
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