forbiddance
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Origin of forbiddance
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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
It seemed, as she spoke it, introduced simply to add peremptoriness to her forbiddance.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
In spite of the formal forbiddance of the Bishop of Petræa, he undertook, strong in what he judged to be his rights, to betake himself to Montreal.
From The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval by Adrien Leblond de Brumath
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
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