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▪ 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; † acquittal.
In mod. examples perh. associated with sense 5.
a1225Ancr. R. 126 Wiðute cwitaunce, up of his prisun nis non inumen. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxii. (Laurence) 702 For quetance scho suld ga one ane heyt yrne. 1426E. E. Wills 71 Þe costes of his qwytaunce of his enditement. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xliii. 58 We woll..demaunde of you quytance of our bondes. 1603Court Bk. Earl Orkney 21 June (Jam. Suppl.), Under quittance of the stowt of his nyhbor's peits. 1858J. Robertson Poems 99 Thy work is done..Bless thy good quittance from superfluous life. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset II. xlix. 49 They [quarrels] come very easily,..but the quittance from them is sometimes terribly difficult.
2. A release or discharge from a debt or obligation; a document certifying such discharge; a receipt.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 156 Richard ȝald him his right, his tresore & his toun,..To mak certeyn partie, R. a quitance toke. 1464Paston Lett. II. 162 A quetaunce of suche money as ye have receyved. c1500Melusine 356–7 Ye desyre of me quytaunce therof so wyl I haue quytaunce of hym that receyueth it of you. 1600Hakluyt Voy. II. 272 Hauing paid the custome, it behoueth to haue a quittance. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. v. 784, I have thy Quittance, though I am thy Debtor. 1819Scott Ivanhoe x, Gurth..folded the quittance, and put it under his cap. 1863J. G. Murphy Comm., Gen. xxiv. 5–8 He..obtains a quittance from his oath. 1882Ouida Maremma I. 248 We let her take our substance and never asked her a quittance.
fig.1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 10813 Þe fourþe sacrament ys penaunce, Þat ys for synne a quytaunce. 1595Locrine v. iv. 188 Soon shall I..with my sword..Seal thee a quittance for thy bold attempts. 1642Quarles Div. Poems i. 60 Deare Mercy made a Quittance for her sin.
Prov.1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 161 Suffrans is no quittans. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. v. 133 That's all one: omittance is no quittance.
3. Recompense or requital; repayment; reprisal.
c1590Marlowe Faust. Wks. (Rtldg.) 126/1 On his head, in quittance of my wrongs, I'll nail huge forked horns. 1600Holland Livy vii. xix. 262 This execution made quittance with them, for sacrificing the Romanes. 1637Shirley Hyde Park i. i. B iij b, In quittance of your loving, honest Councell. 1813Byron Corsair ii. vi, Each..sinks outwearied..His last faint quittance rendering with his breath. 1879Butcher & Lang Odyssey 18 In quittance whereof ye now work me harm.
Comb.1862Ruskin Unto this Last 138 note, Tisiphone, the ‘requiter (or quittance-taker) of death’.
†4. to cry quittance, to declare oneself clear or even with another; hence, to make full repayment or retaliation. (Cf. quits 2 b.) Obs.
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 292 Desirous to crye quittaunce for hir present tongue. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 234, I thought I had just cause to crie quittance with him. 1679Dryden Troilus & C. i. ii, He was struck down yesterday in the Battle, but..he'll cry Quittance with 'em to-day.
5. The act of quitting or leaving. rare.
1892Black & White 22 Oct. 462/2 After his quittance of the jail he resumed the editorship.
▪ II. † ˈquittance, v. Obs.
[f. prec. n. Cf. OF. quittancer (Godef.).]
1. intr. To give a discharge. rare—1.
1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 108, I..graunte to my sayd atturnays..to take playnt and arest..and to relece and quitaunce [etc.].
2. trans. To give up, cancel. = quit v. 5.
1592Greene Conny catching ii. 2 b, Shall I be made a slaue because I am bound to you: no no, I can quittance my indenture when I list.
3. To repay, requite (a person, service, injury, etc.).
1590Greene Orl. Fur. Wks. (Rtldg.) 95 Hate calls me on to quittance all my ills. 1620Swetnam Arraigned (1880) 35 Ere long, It may be in Our power to quittance him. 1624Heywood Gunaik. i. 54 To quittance this He guerdons Midas with his golden wish. |