forbidden

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One acquires a taste for the forbidden, and one hires a little room like this from an unprincipled blackguard like Honest George, and insensibly one goes deeper and deeper until one gets beyond one's depth.

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  1. verb A past participle of forbid.
  2. adjective Physics Having an extremely low probability of occurrence. Used of quantum phenomena: a forbidden transition.

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  • In some localities divorce and also polygamy are said to be forbidden, and in such cases a woman who commits adultery is finally expelled from the caste, and a funeral feast is given to symbolise her death 4. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
  • The water from rivers and tanks being thus forbidden, they are obliged in case of necessity to dig a little hole by the side of a tank or river and take the water filtering through, which, by this means, is supposed to become spring water." —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
  • Marriage Marriage within the kul or family group is forbidden, as also the union of first cousins. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
  • Marriage within the section is forbidden, and, besides this, members of the Atak and Mankari sections cannot intermarry as they are considered to be related, being divisions of one original section. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
  • An attempt to remove his coat was promptly frustrated by his daughter You'll get doing it when you come round to see us," she explained Mr. Spriggs sighed, and lighting a short clay pipe--forbidden in the presence of his future son-in-law--fell to watching mother and daughter as they gloated over dress materials and discussed double-widths Anybody who can't be 'appy with her," he said, half an hour later, as his daughter slapped his head by way of bidding him good-night, and retired, "don't deserve to be 'appy I wish it was over," whispered his wife. —  Short Cruises
 

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forbidden:   forbid ·  forbade ·  forbidding ·  forbids
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