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Definition of Forbidders
1. forbidder [n] - See also: forbidder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forbidders
Literary usage of Forbidders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Question of Miracles: Parallels in the Lives of Buddha and Jesus by Loren Harper Whitney (1908)
"... they were called Rakshas, "forbidders." (16) The Asuras were of the same piece.
They were enemies of the Aryans, and so worked in conjunction with the ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1909)
"... or Latins, or Italians, can serve as prohibitory precedents—as forbidders,
merely by the fact of not having done a thing—to Englishmen. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1840)
"The founders of the religious orders were prophets of a New Moral World—all
enemies to covetousness— »11 forbidders of marriage—all declared reformers of ..."
4. The Voyage of John Huyghen Van Linschoten to the East Indies: From the Old by Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Arthur Coke Burnell, Pieter Anton Tiele (1885)
"... that are the principal forbidders of it, are such as dayly eate thereof, for
their owne wives sakes,4 that thereby they might fulfill their pleasures ..."
5. A History of the Arabs in the Sudan and Some Account of the People who by Harold Alfred Macmichael (1922)
"... the smiters with smiting swords, the pursuers of the right way, the virtuous
livers, the forbidders of evil, the arbitrators of mankind. ..."
6. Woman Physiologically Considered as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial by Alexander Walker (1840)
"And indeed the papists, who are the strictest forbidders of divorce, are the
easiest libertines to admit of grossest uncleanness.* Of the INJUSTICE of this ..."
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