Acqu'ittance. n.s. [from acquit.]

1. The act of discharging from a debt.

                                       But soon shall find
   Forbearance, no acquittance, ere day end
   Justice shall not return, as beauty, scorn’d. Par. Lost, b. x.

2. A writing testifying the receipt of a debt.

                               You can produce acquittances
   For such a sum, from special officers
   Of Charles his father. Shakesp. Love‘s Labour Lost.

   They quickly pay their debt, and then
   Take no acquittances, but pay again. Donne.

   They had got a worse trick than that; the same man bought and sold to himself, paid the money, and gave the acquittance. Arbuthnot's Hist. of John Bull.