forfeiting

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English

Verb

forfeiting

  1. present participle of forfeit

Noun

forfeiting (plural forfeitings)

  1. The act by which something is forfeited or surrendered; a giving up.
    • 1832, Robert Wodrow, The History of the Suffering of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution
      The finings and forfeitings of persons of substance and estates were innumerable, some of the last may come to be noticed in this chapter, and in the progress of this work.
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