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Definition of Forbiddance

1. Noun. An official prohibition or edict against something.

2. Noun. The action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof). "He ignored his parents' forbiddance"

Definition of Forbiddance

1. n. The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.

Definition of Forbiddance

1. Noun. an official prohibition or edict against something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Forbiddance

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forbiddance

forbathe forbear forbearance forbearances forbearant forbeare forbearer forbearers forbearing forbearingly

forbears forbeat forbid forbidal forbidals forbiddance (current term) forbiddances forbidden forbidden fruit forbidden fruit is the sweetest

forbiddenly forbidder forbidders forbiddest forbiddeth forbidding forbiddingly forbids forbise forbisen

Literary usage of Forbiddance

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

1. Institutes of the Civil Law of Spain by Ignacio Jordán de Assó y del Río, Miquel de Manuel y Rodríquez (1825)
"P. 3., quoted, of the party's proceeding in the work after having been admonished to desist is that, whether such forbiddance mav have been made with right ..."

2. The Paradise Lost of Milton by John Milton (1858)
"Rather, how hast thou yielded to transgress The strict forbiddance, how to violate The sacred fruit forbidden ! Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguil'd ..."

3. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Milton, John Mitford, Walter Scott (1850)
"Rather how hast thou yielded to transgress The strict forbiddance, how to violate The sacred fruit ..."

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