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Middle English
Etymology
See forfeit.
Verb
forfete
- To incur a penalty; to transgress.
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parson's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, section 12, line 273:
And al this suffred Iesu Crist, that nevere forfeted.- And all this suffered Jesus Christ, who never sinned.
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