Definition of Forfends

1. Verb. (third-person singular of forfend) ¹

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Definition of Forfends

1. forfend [v] - See also: forfend

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forfends

forfeit
forfeitability
forfeitable
forfeited
forfeiter
forfeiters
forfeiting
forfeits
forfeiture
forfeiture fund
forfeiture funds
forfeitures
forfend
forfended
forfending
forfends (current term)
forfered
forfete
forfeted
forfetes
forfeting
forfex
forfexes
forficate
forficula
forfight
forflutter
forfoughten
forfret
forgat

Literary usage of Forfends

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1904)
"The author forfends criticism on this point, however, by stating that there were "no mysteries in his career to excite curiosity." "Of such a man, ..."

2. Songs, Merry and Sad by John Charles McNeill (1906)
"Thus heaven forfends that I shall drink The gall that might have been, If aught had broken a single link Along the lists of men; ..."

3. The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes Christina Laut (1915)
"Why does she not rest secure under the aegis of the Monroe Doctrine, which forever forfends foreign conquest of America by an alien ..."

4. Home Education by Isaac Taylor (1838)
"... defined instruction which the teacher originates, and which he controls, and limits, and in conducting which he secures animated attention, and forfends ..."

5. Imperialism and Christ by Ford Cyrinde Ottman (1912)
"These gates of hell she storms, and hell forfends and drives her back. Attempts ethical, attempts sociological, attempts humanitarian, and attempts ..."

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