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

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

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

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John

Know that this lady Tohfah is my sister and that her biddance is my biddance and her forbiddance my forbiddance.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

In spite of the formal forbiddance of the Bishop of Petræa, he undertook, strong in what he judged to be his rights, to betake himself to Montreal.

From The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval by Leblond de Brumath, Adrien