forbidden
verb
a past participle of forbid.
self-forbidden
-
a word derived from
forbidden.
Example Sentences
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Husbandhood, fatherhood, and all the sacred education that flows from human joy; for ever self-forbidden, and this grind creed for recompense!
From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward
But he was not yet cured of longing for that self-forbidden city in the North.
From A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Husbandhood, fatherhood, and all the sacred education that flows from human joy for ever self-forbidden, and this grim creed for recompense!
From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward
And so he drifts, not up but down, and Nature watches in anguish, self-forbidden to intervene, unless it be to annihilate.
From A Modern Symposium by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
