Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A forbidding; a command forbidding a thing; a prohibition.
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- noun Alternative form of
forbode .
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Examples
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This is a perilous trade, covetous, and a 'ticement to murder; for, mark ye, if they that ask this should be evil-given, as Gods forbod, they see who hath this gold and silver: may they not come in the night, break in at their houses, and cut their throats for it?
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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¶ Shuld he not do all agaynste gods forbod which wold trim his cap, lettyng his head be vnkempt, and all scabbed?
The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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