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forbade

[ fer-bad, -beyd, fawr- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb

forbade

/ -ˈbeɪd; fəˈbæd; fəˈbæd /

Traditionally, the community has eschewed visitors and strangers to their towns, and strictly forbade outside marriage.

There are those still living whose sex forbade them to offer their lives, but who gave instead their happiness.

In 2011, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a NRA-sponsored law that forbade pediatricians from asking about guns in the home.

Hamas first forbade women from riding on the back of motorcycles, and then from riding on them at all.

Often they forbade firearms altogether within the limits of a city.

Pride forbade him to confess himself a homeless, penniless vagabond.

That my aspirations were satisfied I do not pretend, for ambition forbade any settled feeling of rest or content.

Jessie forbade her chum to tell, by a hard stare and a determined shake of her head.

His mind with all its sternness ever tended to clemency, and his constitutional prudence, or measure, forbade purposeless excess.

Bishop Fox in his injunctions in 1507 forbade sundry priests to hold any communication with the abbess or with any of the nuns.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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