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Familiarity vs Acquittance - What's the difference?

familiarity | acquittance |

As nouns the difference between familiarity and acquittance

is that familiarity is the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy while acquittance is the clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

As a verb acquittance is

to acquit.

familiarity

English

Noun

(familiarities)
  • The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
  • *, II.8:
    • It is also folly and injustice to deprive childrenof their fathers familiaritie , and ever to shew them a surly, austere, grim, and disdainefull countenance, hoping thereby to keepe them in awfull feare and duteous obedience.
  • Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
  • * 1927 , G K Chesterton, The Return of Don Quixote , p.5:
    • Murrel did not in the least object to being called a monkey, yet he always felt a slight distaste when Julian Archer called him one.It had to do with a fine shade between familiarity and intimacy which men like Murrel are never ready to disregard, however ready they may be to black their faces.
  • An instance of familiar behaviour.
  • Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.

    • Derived terms

    * familiarity breeds contempt

    acquittance

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Alternative forms

    * acquittaunce (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.
  • A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You can produce acquittances / For such a sum, from special officers.

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To acquit.

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