11 September 2016
quittance
[kwit-ns]
noun
1. recompense or requital.
2. discharge from a debt or obligation.
3. a document certifying discharge from debt or obligation, as a receipt.
Origin of quittance
Middle English, Old French
1175-1225; Middle English quitaunce; Old French quitance, equivalent to quit (er) to quit1+ -ance -ance
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Examples from the Web for quittance
Historical Examples
Hereat the brewer did wonder, and desired to see the quittance.
The Sources and Analogues of ‘A Midsummer-night’s Dream’
Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
The guerdon; the quittance ; could it be possible after all, the end was not far?
Under the Rose
Frederic Stewart Isham
The portrait has the look of being designed as a quittance in full of old scores.
Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858
Various
I’ve sent him his quittance papers, and he’s your enemy for all time.
A Captain in the Ranks
George Cary Eggleston
The man was a bankrupt; but still he had given her all he had to give, a quittance.
The Talk of the Town, Volume 2 (of 2)
James Payn
In a few minutes I should receive a quittance, and be free to think only of myself.
A Gentleman of France
Stanley Weyman
The deputy turned over his charge to him, received his quittance, and went away.
Robert Tournay
William Sage
Anagram
enact quit
quiet cant
acquit ten
Today’s quote
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
On this day
11 September 1297 – William Wallace leads Scottish forces to victory against the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
11 September 1941 – construction of the Pentagon commences in Washington DC. (Completed on 15 January 1943).
11 September 1948 – death of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the father of Pakistan. Leader of the Muslim League calling for the creation of Pakistan. Served as Pakistan’s first Governor-General from 15 August 1947 until his death. In Pakistan, his birthday is a national holiday. Born 25 December 1876.
11 September 1972 – Democratically elected President Salvador Allende of Chilé, is overthrown in a U.S. sponsored coup which brings to power General Augusto Pinochet. The Church Committee, commissioned by the U.S. Department of State to investigate covert C.I.A. operations in Chilé, found that Henry Kissinger had directed the C.I.A. to prevent the socialist Allende from being elected, then to undermine his presidency, before supplying arms to a military junta which succeeded in overthrowing Allendé. Thousands of people died or disappeared under Pinochet’s rule, with approximately 40,000 suffering human rights violations, including torture.
11 September 1987 – death of Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae singer and musician. From 1963 to 1974, Tosh was a member of Bob Marley and Wailers until going solo. His most famous song is ‘Legalize It’, about legalising marijuana. Tosh’s album, ‘Bush Doctor’, included a duet with Mick Jagger in the song, ‘Don’t Look Back’. Tosh was a Rastafarian. He campaigned against apartheid, which he sang about on his album ‘Equal Rights’. Tosh was murdered on 11 September 1987, after three men broke into his house and tortured him in an effort to extort money. After several hours, one of the men shot Tosh in the head, killing him. Two other friends of Tosh’s were also killed. Born 19 October 1944.
11 September 2001 – 9/11 Terrorist Attacks in which four commercial airliners were hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists. Two planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City, one plane hit the Pentagon in Washington DC and one crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers fought with the hijackers. Approximately, 3,000 people died in the attacks.