forbiddance
Example Sentences
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It came late in the first set, after Williams and Konta had tugged-of-war to 4-4 with a total forbiddance of service breaks.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2017
Mrs Rose is sorely distressed touching the forbiddance of wedded priests, which ’tis thought shall shortly be had.
From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt
It seemed, as she spoke it, introduced simply to add peremptoriness to her forbiddance.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Father's No. Shutting us in with its grand, gentle forbiddance.
From The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
That, despite the peremptory and categorical forbiddance by Bodley, Selden, and others, of lending Bodleian books and MSS., loans of both have for upwards of two centuries formed a precedent.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
