forefend
Britishverb
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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
I wonder what I should think of the book were I to read it now, which Heaven forefend!
From Records of a Girlhood by Fanny Kemble
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 J. F. Foster
Strength to forefend us against they delusion ability to see that the meaning governs the term, and not the term the meaning—are species of intellectual self-defence.
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by George Jacob Holyoake
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