quittance

[ kwit-ns ]

/ ˈkwɪt ns /

recompense or requital.

discharge from a debt or obligation.

a document certifying discharge from debt or obligation, as a receipt.

Origin of quittance

1175–1225; Middle English quitaunce < Old French quitance, equivalent to quit(er) to quit¹ + -ance -ance

quite, quite a bit, quito, quitrent, quits, quittance, quitted trick, quitter, quittor, quiver, quiver leg

The portrait has the look of being designed as a quittance in full of old scores.

Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 |Various
He must have legal purgation, discharge, release from custody, quittance.

Napoleon the Little |Victor Hugo
Hereat the brewer did wonder, and desired to see the quittance.

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' |Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
No gipsy shall cut the value of a broom—no boy so much as take a bird's nest—without paying thee a quittance.

Kenilworth |Sir Walter Scott

Very good, then, Master Tibbald: if you will pay the Council that sum, its secretary shall make you out a note of quittance.'

Merry-Garden and Other Stories |Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

quittance

/ (ˈkwɪtəns) /

release from debt or other obligation

a receipt or other document certifying this

C13: from Old French, from quitter to release from obligation; see quit