Definition of Forfeit

Forfeit

Injury; wrong; mischief.

A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life.

Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.

Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.

To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited.

To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.

To fail to keep an obligation.

In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.

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Forfeit Quotations

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Abraham Lincoln

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Though we may not necessarily forfeit our lives in service to our God, we can certainly demonstrate our love for Him by how well we serve Him.
Thomas S. Monson

But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.
Barney Frank

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
Phaedrus

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
Samuel Hopkins

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Forfeit Translations

forfeit in Dutch is verbeurd
forfeit in French is forfais, forfont, forfaison, forfaire
forfeit in Norwegian is forbrutt, forspille, pant, forspilt
forfeit in Portuguese is perda

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