Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Forfeiture; attainder.
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Examples
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Earl of Montrose to assemble the subjects in arms, for the putting down the present rebellion, which divers traitors and seditious persons had levied against the King, to the manifest forfaulture, as it stated, of their allegiance, and to the breach of the pacification between the two kingdoms.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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Earl of Montrose to assemble the subjects in arms, for the putting down the present rebellion, which divers traitors and seditious persons had levied against the King, to the manifest forfaulture, as it stated, of their allegiance, and to the breach of the pacification between the two kingdoms.
A Legend of Montrose 1871
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It was couched in the most full and ample terms, authorizing the Earl of Montrose to assemble the subjects in arms, for the putting down the present rebellion, which divers traitors and seditious persons had levied against the King, to the manifest forfaulture, as it stated, of their allegiance, and to the breach of the pacification between the two kingdoms.
A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801
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Mr. Roderick McKenzie, petitioner, anent the forfaulture of
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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