different between quittance vs aquittance

English

From Middle English quytaunce, from Old French quitance (modern French quittance), from Latin quietantia.

quittance (plural quittances)

A release or acquittal.
A discharge from a debt or obligation; a document that shows this discharge.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, Scene 5,^[1]
  I marvel why I answer’d not again;
  But that’s all one: omittance is no quittance.
(obsolete) Recompense; return; repayment.
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,^[2]
  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. 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act I, Scene 1,^[3]
  […] 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.

From quitter (“to make quits”) +? -ance, from quitte (“quits”).

quittance f (plural quittances)

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