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

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

I have set my heart upon the wrestling, and in spite of your forbiddance I shall go.

From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Leighton, Robert

Well, I would not so much care—should it serve you if I gave her strict forbiddance for to go?”

From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by Rainey, W. (William)

He thought wistfully of the welsher's peremptory forbiddance of all compromise—of the welsher's inexorable command to "wring the fine-feathered bird," lose whatever might be lost by it.

From Under Two Flags by Ouida