- a variation of forfend.
forefend
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Heaven forefend Amazon would use robots to make chores less laborious, as it has for warehouse work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Heaven forefend, this might have pushed them to work longer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
Heaven forefend all the temptations that compass him in the modern Babylon.
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Thompson, Slason
But if I have written sense and you have derived pleasure from the perusal of it, then we are both content, and I need neither forefend your criticism nor beg your excuses.
From Three Months of My Life by Foster, J. F.
In the commencement of my remarks, upon this romance of real life, I endeavored to forefend, against the suspicion of undervaluing that species of evidence, which is called presumptive, or circumstantial.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
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