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quittance
▪ I. quittance, n. (ˈkwɪtəns) Forms: 3 cwitaunce, 4 quitance, 5 qvyt-, qwyt-, 5–6 quet-, quyt-, 6– quittance (also 5 -awnce, 5–6 -ans, -aunce, and 7 cuttans). [a. OF. quitance (later quittance), f. quiter to quit. Cf. med.L. quit(t)-, quietantia.] 1. The act of freeing or clearing; release; † acquit...
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Quittance (1590)
Disposition
Quittance was Condemned in 1618. Quittance
Ships of the Royal Navy, by J.J.
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quietance
† quietance Obs. [ad. med.L. quiētāncia, f. quiētāre to quiet: see -ance.] = quittance 2.1451 Rolls Parlt. V. 224/1 Libertees, Fraunchises and Quietaunces conteyned in the same. 1571 Act 13 Eliz. c. 29 All manner of Liberties, Franchises, Immunities, Quietances and Privileges.
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John Quelch (pirate)
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Pierse, George
Perkins, Benjamin
Parrot, James
Pattison, James
Perkins, Benjamin
Peterson, Erasmus
Pitman, John
Pimer, Matthew
Quelch, Captain John
Quittance
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Hugues Quiéret
However, the most important document on the preparations is the 'quittance' of 2 July 1338 which proved the fleet used gunpowder, the first documentation
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omittance
† oˈmittance Obs. rare—1. [f. omit v. + -ance; cf. admittance.] = omission.1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. v. 133, I maruell why I answer'd not againe, But that's all one: omittance is no quittance.
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Clementina Walkinshaw
Charlotte died in 1789, leaving Clementina 50,000 livres and an annuity, but Cardinal Stuart insisted on Clementina signing a "quittance" renouncing any However, Cardinal Henry Stuart would ‘release’ the money; he had only agreed to do so if Clementina would sign an quittance, renouncing any former claim
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acquitting
acquitting, vbl. n. (əˈkwɪtɪŋ) [f. acquit v. + -ing1.] A discharging, setting free, or releasing. (Now mostly gerundial.)1436 Pol. Poems & Songs II. 159 Ffor concyens and for myne acquytynge Ayenst God and ageyne abusyon. 1668 Wilkins Real Char. ii. i. §5. 41 Relations of Action, iv Commerce, 9 Acqu...
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Lough Corrib
Influence on writers
Paul Féval's novel La Quittance de minuit (1846) is set in County Galway, near Lough Corrib.
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outbreathed
outbreathed, ppl. a.2 (aʊtˈbrɛθt) [f. out- 26 + breath n. + -ed.] Put out of breath.1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. i. 108 Rend'ring faint quittance (wearied, and out-breath'd) To Henrie Monmouth. 1760–72 H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) I. 84 Being all out-breathed in turns, they remitted from their toil....
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Beachley
It was recorded in the 12th century when the de Clares, lords of Tidenham, granted quittance of the passage to the monks of Tintern, and was evidently
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quits
quits, a. and n. (kwɪts) [Cf. quit a., but the origin of the -s is obscure; it may be due to a colloquial use of the med.L. quit(t)us in receipts (cf. quitsest).] A. adj. † 1. Clear, discharged (of a liability). Obs.1478 Croscombe Church-w. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.) 7 Rest to the Wardenes xviijs. ixd. p...
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Charles E. Merrill Jr.
Before his father's death, Merrill and his two siblings renounced any further inheritance from their father's estate in exchange for $100 "as full quittance
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