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Definition of Forbiddances
1. forbiddance [n] - See also: forbiddance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forbiddances
Literary usage of Forbiddances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore (1921)
"... mass of conventional negations and forbiddances—into hopeless layers of
conformity and caste, did not the irrepressible energy and animation of youth, ..."
2. "Polly Peachum": Being the Story of Lavinia Fenton (duchess of Bolton) and by Charles E. Pearce (1913)
"Great Umbrage was taken, that I was permitted to have the whole Town to my self,
by the absolute forbiddances of what they had more mind to have been ..."
3. The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall by Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863)
"... so much whet our desires as forbiddances. What is this but to baffle and
affront that sacred power which is entrusted to government; and to profess ..."
4. Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings by Joseph Hall (1837)
"... exactions, unlawful transportations, excess of diet, of apparel, or whatever
noted abuse ; commands do not so much whet our desires, as forbiddances. ..."
5. Biographies of Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers: Reprinted from an by Charles Bradlaugh, Anthony Collins, John Watts (1858)
"For any one apparent exhortation to believe, we can produce two forbiddances to
believe, and many threaten- ings of God's vengeance to, and for the crime ..."
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