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(kwit′'ns)

noun

1. discharge from a debt or obligation
2. a document certifying this; receipt
recompense; repayment; reprisal

Origin: ME quitance < OFr < quiter: see quit

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noun

a. Release from a debt, an obligation, or a penalty.
b. A document or receipt certifying such release.
Something given as requital or recompense; a repayment.

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Origin: Middle English quitance

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , from quiter, to free; see quit

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