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quittance
noun
[ ˈkwɪt(ə)ns ]
• a release or discharge from a debt or obligation.
• "will any say when my bell of quittance is heard in the gloom?"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French quitance, from quiter ‘to release’ (see quit1).