All 3 Uses of
forfeit
in
Middlemarch
- Tell her to come home soon, and play at forfeits, and make fun.†
Chpt 3 *
- It is really the most charming romance: Mr. Casaubon jealous, and foreseeing that there was no one else whom Mrs. Casaubon would so much like to marry, and no one who would so much like to marry her as a certain gentleman; and then laying a plan to spoil all by making her forfeit her property if she did marry that gentleman—and then—and then—and then—oh, I have no doubt the end will be thoroughly romantic.†
Chpt 6
- "Don't know that Mr. Casaubon has left it in his will that if Mrs. Casaubon marries you she is to forfeit all her property?"†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(forfeit) to lose or surrender something -- often as a penalty