quittance

noun /ˈkwɪtəns/

1. A release or acquittal.

2. A discharge from a debt or obligation; a document that shows this discharge.

   But that’s all one: omittance is no quittance.

   I marvel why I answer’d not again;

3. Recompense; return; repayment.

   obsolete

   And he confesseth that he loues me not. Mor[timer] iu[nior]. Crie quittance Madam then, & loue not him.

   Qu[een]. Ah Mortimer! now breaks the kings hate forth,

Where it comes from

From Middle English quytaunce, from Old French quitance (modern French quittance), from Latin quietantia. The verb is derived from the noun.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry quittance (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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