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

The Father's No. Shutting us in with its grand, gentle forbiddance.

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

I have set my heart upon the wrestling, and in spite of your forbiddance I shall go.

From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Leighton, Robert

His second, too, shouted to the crowd, using the Baron's name to enforce his words, but he might as well have shrieked forbiddance to the incoming tide.

From Princess Maritza by Brebner, Percy James

He thought wistfully of the welsher's peremptory forbiddance of all compromise—of the welsher's inexorable command to "wring the fine-feathered bird," lose whatever might be lost by it.

From Under Two Flags by Ouida