Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- v. Variant of forfend.
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- v. Alternative spelling of forfend.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See forfend.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See forfend.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
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Examples
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Young people love soccer not because of some kind of commie-Nazi plot conjured by Saul Alinsky to sap us of our precious juices, but because it's -- heaven forefend -- fun.
Dave Zirin: Glenn Beck's Blues: Why the Far Right Hates Soccer
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Young people love soccer not because of some kind of commie-nazi plot conjured by Saul Alinsky to sap us of our precious juices, but because it's -- heaven forefend -- fun.
Dave Zirin: Glenn Beck's Blues: Why the Far Right Hates Soccer
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Because these threads owe so much to the Tea Partyers and their success in KY with Rand Paul, who you have not said is other than representative of libertarians, I would like to know what we might expect of such people if, Heaven forefend, they were elected to public office, let alone the US Senate.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities
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Now, the person doing the explaining is also mighty elliptical about the whole thing: heaven forefend that someone should come right out and say: Look, you can't do that because these bad things will happen.
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But Heaven forefend that they be actually diverse, individual human beings, unranked and uncontrolled.
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Thus, we are trained to swallow impish notions that to cease making one abysmal mistake after the next is "cutting and running" or "giving up" or forefend, "quitting."
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In the play, the bar represents a formal body, especially the National Convention or Revolutionary Tribunal, and to call someone to the bar is used in the sense of demanding an official appearance. forefend
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Audience members frequently freeze up if the author of a published book responds to their praise or, heaven forefend, to a simple request to autograph the book with, “Thanks — what was your favorite part?”
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That people who talk during lectures or at the theater or the OPERA, heaven forefend, were to be ostracized from polite society.
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