Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a forbidden or unlawful manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a forbidden or unlawful manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
forbidden orunlawful manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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For some reason the day suddenly seems forbiddenly long.
Wide Awake at 7:00 am wen_spencer 2006
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Jinny always dances in the hall on the ugly, the encaustic tiles; she turns cartwheels in the playground; she picks some flower forbiddenly, and sticks it behind her ear so that Miss
The Waves 2003
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"Callender House"; but the pain persisted and the dream passed into a horrible daytime darkness that brought a sense of vast changes near and far; a sense of many having gone from that house, and of many having most forbiddenly come to it; a sense of herself spending years and years, and passing from world to world, in quest of one Hilary, Hilary
Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884
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