forbiddance
Example Sentences
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It came late in the first set, after Williams and Konta had tugged-of-war to 4-4 with a total forbiddance of service breaks.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2017
Know that this lady Tohfah is my sister and that her biddance is my biddance and her forbiddance my forbiddance.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton
That, despite the peremptory and categorical forbiddance by Bodley, Selden, and others, of lending Bodleian books and MSS., loans of both have for upwards of two centuries formed a precedent.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Rather, how hast thou yielded to transgress The strict forbiddance, how to violate The sacred fruit forbidden!
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
His second, too, shouted to the crowd, using the Baron's name to enforce his words, but he might as well have shrieked forbiddance to the incoming tide.
From Princess Maritza by Percy James Brebner
