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Forbiddance

noun
1.
An official prohibition or edict against something.  Synonyms: ban, banning, forbidding.
2.
The action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof).  Synonyms: inhibition, prohibition.  "A medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages" , "He ignored his parents' forbiddance"





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"Forbiddance" Quotes from Famous Books



... shot upward, high in air, outspread in the gesture of forbiddance. His deep voice rang, overbearing the stumbling accents ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... clement. He was clearly welcome to philander. Recovering his poise at once, he began, in his finest voice, "You need not chide me. There can be no mistake on my part now. You can entangle me without fear; and I can love without hope. Ned is an unrepealed statute of Forbiddance. Go on, Mrs. Conolly. Play with me: it will amuse you. And—spiritless wretch that I am!—it will help me to live until you throw me ...
— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw


Words linked to "Forbiddance" :   banning, test ban, prohibition, forbid, action


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