forfeit vs remembrance

forfeit

adj
  • Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure. 

noun
  • Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To fail to keep an obligation. 

  • 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 suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance 

  • To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress. 

remembrance

noun
  • The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection. 

  • Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory. 

  • That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memento, a memorial, a souvenir, a token; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered. 

  • The power of remembering; the reach of personal knowledge; the period over which one's memory extends. 

  • The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory, recollection. 

verb
  • To remember; to recall to mind. 

How often have the words forfeit and remembrance occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )