Search for crossword answers and clues
A document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt
Answer for the clue "A document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt ", 9 letters:
quittance
Alternative clues for the word quittance
Word definitions for quittance in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt payment of a debt or obligation [syn: repayment ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quittance \Quit"tance\, v. t. To repay; to requite. [Obs.] --Shak.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a release or acquittal 2 a discharge from a debt or obligation; a document that shows this discharge 3 (context obsolete English) recompense; return; repayment
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "payment, compensation;" c.1300, "discharge from an obligation," from Old French quitance (Modern French quittance ), from quiter (see quit (v.)).\n
Usage examples of quittance.
The quittances which the Mayor of Meudon had exacted from him before he would issue the necessary safe-conducts placed the whole of his future, perhaps his very life, in jeopardy.
I think a certain sancta simplicitas is in order here - a placid handing-over of this enormous fortune without any question of quittance or formal acknowledgement.