All 3 Uses of
forfeit
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
- There were more dances, and there were forfeits, and more dances, and there was cake, and there was negus, and there was a great piece of Cold Roast, and there was a great piece of Cold Boiled, and there were mince-pies, and plenty of beer.†
p. 45.3 *
- After a while they played at forfeits; for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.†
p. 84.9
- But she joined in the forfeits, and loved her love to admiration with all the letters of the alphabet.†
p. 86.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(forfeit) to lose or surrender something -- often as a penalty
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, forfeit is used as a noun to reference that which was lost or surrendered.