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quit-rent|ˈkwɪtrɛnt|
Also 5–6 quite-, (quyte-, 5 white-, etc.).
[f. quite quit a. + rent.]
1. A rent, usually of small amount, paid by a freeholder or copyholder in lieu of services which might be required of him.
c1460Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 24 Consydere what seruyce longyth ther-to And the quyterent that there-of oute shalle goo. 1463Bury Wills (Camden) 24, xijs. of white rente. 1511Fabyan Will in Chron. (1811) Pref. p. xi, All the charges and quyterents..goyng owte of the same. 1532–3in Swayne Sarum Church-w. Acc. (1896) 264 To my lorde of Salisbury for quytrent, vijs. iiijd. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 57–8 He that pays not the quit-rent..disowns the sovereignty of the lord of the Manor. 1706Mrs. Ray in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 208, {pstlg}40 a year..out of which taxes, repairs, and quit-rent make a great hole. 1776Adam Smith W.N. (1869) I. ii. iii. 336 The rent they paid was often nominally little more than a quit-rent. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. ii. vii. §1 A tenant at a quit rent is to all intents and purposes a proprietor.
b. transf. or fig.
1607Tourneur Rev. Trag. i. i. Wks. 1878 II. 7 Vengence, thou murder's Quit-rent. 1645Quarles Sol. Recant. iii. 54 Is't not enough that we poor Farmers pay Quit-rent to Nature at the very day? 1737Green Spleen 657 Fit dwelling for the feather'd throng, Who pay their quit-rents with a song. 1833H. Coleridge Poems I. 12 The rose-lipp'd shells Which Neptune to the earth for quit-rent pays.
attrib.1782Cowper Table Talk 110 The courtly laureate pays His quitrent ode, his peppercorn of praise.
2. A charge upon an estate for some special purpose. ? Obs.
1454Rolls Parlt. V. 258/1 Devysed and by his legate ordeyned, vi mark of annuell quyte rente to the sustenaunce of a Prest perpetuall. a1500Colyn Blowbols Test. 180 in Hazl. E.P.P. (1864) I. 101 Sauf only a certeyn quyte-rent, Which that I have gevyn with good entent To pay for me, unto my confessour. 1712Addison Spect. No. 517 ⁋2 The gifts of charity which..he had left as quit-rents upon the estate. |