bidden

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When and if you are bidden to the journey by a POC who has granted you a brief visit to the darker side of human nature, explore safely.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2020

Christopher Meloni, Richard Belzer, Dann Florek, and many others may have bidden the show farewell, but Mariska Hargitay, Kelli Giddish, and, yes, Ice-T are killing it these days.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2014

Then Mussolini had bidden his proud followers to "lift up their standards, their weapons and their hearts and greet the new empire which after 15 centuries again reappears upon the fateful hills of Rome."

From Time Magazine Archive

The three fathers, after 20 years, are hence bidden to a house party.

From Time Magazine Archive

After their suitcases had been unloaded from the station wagon, and Rhonda had signed a form and bidden them farewell, the children were left to wait in a loading area by the bridge gate.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart