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発音

• IPA: /ˈkwɪtəns/
• 韻: -ɪtəns

名詞

quittance (plural quittances)

1. A release or acquittal.

   Synonyms: acquittance, exculpation, exoneration; see also Thesaurus:acquittal

2. A discharge from a debt or obligation; a document that shows this discharge.
   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

     I marvel why I answer’d not again;
     But that’s all one: omittance is no quittance.

3. (obsolete) Recompense; return; repayment.
   • 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     Qu[een]. Ah Mortimer! now breaks the kings hate forth,
     And he confesseth that he loues me not.
     Mor[timer] iu[nior]. Crie quittance Madam then, & loue not him.

   • c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     […] Plutus, the god of gold,
     Is but his steward: no meed but he repays
     Sevenfold above itself; no gift to him
     But breeds the giver a return exceeding
     All use of quittance.

動詞

quittance (third-person singular simple present quittances, present participle quittancing, simple past and past participle quittanced)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To acquit; to repay.

Further reading

• “quittance, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “quittance, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.