forbid
verb (used with object)
to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place.
had been forbidding
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past perfect progressiveof forbid.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The supper was as inviting as the dinner had been forbidding, indicating a change of policy in the kitchen cabinet.
From Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe
The drains had been thoroughly overhauled, everything in fact, that could be done had been done, and the rooms now looked as cheerful as they had been forbidding when I had last seen them.
From The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
He had been forbidding them to pay tribute to Cæsar; and proclaiming Himself a King.
From Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various
