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forbiddance

noun

Etymology

From forbid + -ance.

  1. inherited from *furibeudaną✻
  2. inherited from forbēodan
  3. inherited from forbeden
  4. suffixed as forbiddance — “forbid + ance”

Definitions

  1. An act of forbidding, prohibition

    An act of forbidding, prohibition; an official edict against something.

    • [T]hat such Shows should be prohibited is very rational & proper—it is however curious to see how little forbiddance is necessary; for these Superstitious Brutalities die away of themselves gradually […].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for forbiddance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA