forbiddance

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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

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

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

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

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

Rather, how hast thou yielded to transgress The strict forbiddance, how to violate The sacred fruit forbidden!

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John