2 uses
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Definition
to lose or surrender something — often as a penalty
- Shall we buy treason? and indent with fears When they have lost and forfeited themselves?1.3 — Act 1 Scene 3 — The Same. A Room in the Palace (29% in)
- ...after that, deprived him of his life; And, in the neck of that, task'd the whole State: To make that worse, suffer'd his kinsman March (Who is, if every owner were well placed, Indeed his king) to be engaged in Wales, There without ransom to lie forfeited; Disgraced me in my happy victories, Sought to entrap me by intelligence; Rated my uncle from the Council-board; In rage dismiss'd my father from the Court; Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong; And, in conclusion, drove us to...4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — The Rebel Camp near Shrewsbury (85% in)
There are no more uses of "forfeit" in Henry IV, Part 1.
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