forfeits
Speech parts
1. forfeits - Noun
2. forfeits - Verb
Meaning
forfeits
plural of forfeit
forfeits (uncountable)
A game in which forfeits are demanded.
forfeits
third-person singular simple present indicative of forfeit
Synonyms
Examples
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.
Who loves his country never forfeits heaven.
Superior people are only those who let it be discovered by others; the need to make it evident forfeits the very virtue they aspire to.
If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.
A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.