Usually means: Release from debt or obligation.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word acquittance:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. acquittance: Merriam-Webster
  2. acquittance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acquittance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acquittance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acquittance: Vocabulary.com
  6. acquittance: Wordnik
  7. acquittance: Wiktionary
  8. acquittance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. acquittance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. acquittance: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. acquittance: Dictionary.com
  12. Acquittance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Acquittance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. acquittance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. acquittance: Rhymezone
  16. Acquittance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. acquittance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. acquittance: FreeDictionary.org
  19. acquittance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. acquittance: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. acquittance: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. acquittance: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. acquittance: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. acquittance: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (acquittance)

noun:  (now historical) A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.
noun:  (now rare) Payment of debt; settlement.
noun:  (now historical) The release from a debt, or from some obligation or duty; exemption.
noun:  (obsolete) The dismissal of a legal charge against someone; acquittal.
noun:  (now rare) The acquittal of one's duties; the carrying out of fulfilment of a job or role.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To acquit.

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