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Definition of Forfends
1. forfend [v] - See also: forfend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forfends
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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