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forbidding

adj
/fɚˈbɪdɪŋ/US/fəˈbɪdɪŋ/UK

Etymology

By surface analysis, forbid + -ing.

Definitions

  1. Appearing to be threatening, unfriendly or potentially unpleasant.

    • What cause, cry’d he, can justify our flight, To tempt the dangers of forbidding night?

  2. present participle and gerund of forbid

  3. The act by which something is forbidden

    The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.

    • But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him;
    • 1920, St. John G. Ervine, The Foolish Lovers, London: W. Collins & Sons, Chapter 3, VIII, p. 228, All law was composed of hindrances and obstacles and forbiddings, and therefore he was entirely opposed to Law.

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