acquittanceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Anglo-Norman acquitance, Middle French aquitance, from acquiter (“to acquit”). Compare later acquittal.

発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈkwɪtəns/

名詞

acquittance (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 acquittances)

1. (now historical) A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:

     You can produce acquittances / For such a sum, from special officers.

2. (now まれに) Payment of debt; settlement. [from 14th c.]
3. (now historical) The release from a debt, or from some obligation or duty; exemption. [from 14th c.]
4. (obsolete) The dismissal of a legal charge against someone; acquittal. [15th–19th c.]
   • 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Oxford 1999, p. 82:

     This was a task more difficult than that of self acquittance.

5. (now まれに) The acquittal of one's duties; the carrying out of fulfilment of a job or role. [from 17th c.]

動詞

acquittance (三人称単数 現在形 acquittances, 現在分詞 acquittancing, 過去形および過去分詞形 acquittanced)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To acquit.

参照

• acquittance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.