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Payment of a debt or obligation
Answer for the clue "Payment of a debt or obligation ", 9 letters:
quittance
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Word definitions for quittance in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quittance \Quit"tance\, v. t. To repay; to requite. [Obs.] --Shak.
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 ]
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
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
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.