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

Rather, how hast thou yielded to transgress The strict forbiddance, how to violate The sacred fruit forbidden!

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John

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

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The Father's No. Shutting us in with its grand, gentle forbiddance.

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)