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the retention of value or rights that would otherwise be forfeited
The policy's nonforfeiture clause preserved its cash value.
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From non- ('not') + forfeiture, from Old French forfaiture, from forfaire ('to transgress, forfeit'), from Latin foris ('outside') + facere ('to do').
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