Sacrifice vs Forfeit - What's the difference?
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To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility to gain something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.
* “Don’t you break my heart / ’Cause I sacrifice to make you happy.” - From the song Baby Don’t You Do It by Marvin Gaye
* “God sacrificed His only-begotten Son, so that all people might have eternal life.” (a paraphrase of John 3:16).
* Prior
* G. Eliot
To trade (a value of higher worth) for one of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more such as an ally or business relationship or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.
* (Ayn Rand), Atlas Shrugged
(chess) To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
(baseball) To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be caught or fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.
To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.
To destroy; to kill.
The offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.
* Milton
Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing.
Something sacrificed.
* Milton
(baseball) A play in which the batter is intentionally out in order that runners can advance around the bases.
A loss of profit.
(slang, dated) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.
A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc.
* Shakespeare
Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.
* Goldsmith
(obsolete, rare) Injury; wrong; mischief.
* Ld. Berners
To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules
To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
To fail to keep an obligation.
* Shakespeare
Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
* Shakespeare
* Emerson
As verbs the difference between sacrifice and forfeit
is that sacrifice is to offer (something) as a gift to a deity while forfeit is to suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance.As nouns the difference between sacrifice and forfeit
is that sacrifice is the offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite while forfeit is a penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.As an adjective forfeit is
lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.sacrifice
English
(wikipedia sacrifice)Verb
(sacrific)- Condemned to sacrifice his childish years / To babbling ignorance, and to empty fears.
- The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum making this boy his heir.
- If you exchange a penny for a dollar, it is not a sacrifice ; if you exchange a dollar for a penny, it is.
- (Johnson)
Synonyms
* (sell without profit) sell at a lossDerived terms
* sacrificialNoun
(en noun)- Great pomp, and sacrifice , and praises loud, / To Dagon.
- the sacrifice of one's spare time in order to volunteer
- Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood / Of human sacrifice .
forfeit
English
Noun
(en noun)- That he our deadly forfeit should release'' (John Milton, ''On the Morning of Christ's Nativity , 1629)
- He who murders pays the forfeit of his own life.
- Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal / Remit thy other forfeits .
- Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day.
- to seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit
Verb
(en verb)- He forfeited his last chance of an early release from jail by repeatedly attacking another inmate.
- Because only nine players were present, the football team was forced to forfeit the game.
- I will have the heart of him if he forfeit .
Usage notes
* Very rarely, forfeit is used as the past tense form and past participle (i.e., the past tense forms and the present tense form are homographs).Synonyms
* (lose a contest) capitulate, surrender * (voluntarily give up) forgo, withgoDerived terms
* forfeits * nonforfeited * nonforfeiting * nonforfeitureAdjective
(-)- thy wealth being forfeit to the state
- to tread the forfeit paradise