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Quietus vs Quittance - What's the difference?

quietus | quittance |

As nouns the difference between quietus and quittance

is that quietus is a stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity; especially: death while quittance is a release or acquittal.

quietus

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity; especially: death.
  • * :
    • when he might himself his quietus make with a bare bodkin?
  • * 1886 , , The Bostonians .
    • Olive's specific terrors and dangers had by this time very much blown over; Basil Ransom had given no sign of life for ages, and Henry Burrage had certainly got his quietus before they went to Europe.
  • Final settlement (as of a debt).

    • Related terms

    *quiescence *quiet *quietude English borrowed terms ----

    quittance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a release or acquittal
  • a discharge from a debt or obligation; a document that shows this discharge
  • (obsolete) recompense; return; repayment
  • * 1607 , , I. i. 285:
    • No meed but he repays / Sevenfold above itself; no gift to him / But breeds the giver a return exceeding / All use of quittance .