forfeiture vs sacrifice what difference
what is difference between forfeiture and sacrifice
English
Etymology
From Middle English forfeture, from Old French forfaiture.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɔːfɪtʃə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɔɹfɪtʃɚ/
Noun
forfeiture (countable and uncountable, plural forfeitures)
- (law) A legal action whereby a person loses all interest in the forfeit property.
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- (law) The loss of forfeit property.
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- (law) The property lost as a forfeit.
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- Any loss occasioned by one’s own actions.
- 2020 November 20, Eric D. Miller writing for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in U.S. v. Ngumezi, case 19-10243:
- We conclude that the government has forfeited any claim of forfeiture, so we proceed to consider the merits.
- 2020 November 20, Eric D. Miller writing for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in U.S. v. Ngumezi, case 19-10243:
Translations
English
Etymology
From Middle English sacrificen (verb) and sacrifice (noun), from Old French sacrifice, from Latin sacrificium (“sacrifice”), from sacrificō (“make or offer a sacrifice”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”) + faciō (“do, make”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsækɹɪfaɪs/
- Hyphenation: sac‧ri‧fice
Verb
sacrifice (third-person singular simple present sacrifices, present participle sacrificing, simple past and past participle sacrificed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
- (transitive) To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility of gaining something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.
- 1964, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Baby Don’t You Do It (Marvin Gaye)
- Don’t you break my heart / ’Cause I sacrifice to make you happy.
- “God sacrificed His only begotten Son, so that all people might have eternal life.” (a paraphrase of John 3:16)
- Condemned to sacrifice his childish years / To babbling ignorance, and to empty fears.
- 1857, George Eliot, s:Scenes of Clerical Life
- The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum […] for the sake of […] making this boy his heir.
- 1964, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Baby Don’t You Do It (Marvin Gaye)
- (transitive) To trade (a value of higher worth) for something 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.
- 1957, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
- If you exchange a penny for a dollar, it is not a sacrifice; if you exchange a dollar for a penny, it is.
- 1957, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
- (transitive, chess) To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.
- (dated, tradesmen’s slang) To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.
- To destroy; to kill.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (to offer to a deity): Molochize
- (to sell without profit): sell at a loss
Derived terms
- sacrificial
Translations
Noun
sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural sacrifices)
- The offering of anything to a god; a consecratory rite.
- The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; the devotion of something desirable to something higher, or to a calling deemed more pressing.
- the sacrifice of one’s spare time in order to volunteer
- (baseball) A play in which the batter is intentionally out so that one or more runners can advance around the bases.
- Something sacrificed.
- A loss of profit.
- (slang, dated) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sacrificium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.kʁi.fis/
- Rhymes: -is
Noun
sacrifice m (plural sacrifices)
- sacrifice
Related terms
- sacrificiel
- sacrifier
Further reading
- “sacrifice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Adjective
sacrifice
- vocative masculine singular of sacrificus
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [saˈkrifit͡ʃe]
Verb
sacrifice
- third-person singular present subjunctive of sacrifica
- third-person plural present subjunctive of sacrifica
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