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

Well, I would not so much care—should it serve you if I gave her strict forbiddance for to go?”

From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by Rainey, W. (William)

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

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 Holt, Emily Sarah

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir