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
To the commentator's emendation it may be objected, that he used forefend in the wrong meaning.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo
Now heaven forefend, my dearest lord, That ever such harm should hap to thee: But goe to London to the court, And fair fall truth and honestie.
From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) by William Wordsworth
I don't think those entertainments are dangerously exciting to her now; and Heaven forefend that she should write poetry!
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
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