Definitions
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- verb transitive To
prohibit ;forbid ;deny (right, access to, etc.).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Anyway, In the nine inch pans it took about 20 minutes to bake, just to forwarn anyone else caught in a similar conondrum.
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It is both morally and ethically wrong not to specifically forwarn the contract positions that will be descoped in the near furture.
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It is both morally and ethically wrong not to specifically forwarn the contract positions that will be descoped in the near furture.
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Fortunately for you, this means that I think I can forwarn you of any problems so that they can be avoided easily.
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Fortunately for you, this means that I think I can forwarn you of any problems so that they can be avoided easily.
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I do forwarn all captains of vessels not to carry him off, or any other persons not to harbour him upon their peril.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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I'd like to see a retirement plan for PressRow, stating things like how to forwarn every
Changing Way 2010
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Upon this Score, we ought to shew a Tenderness for these Heathens under the weight of Infidelity; let us cherish their good Deeds, and, with Mildness and Clemency, make them sensible and forwarn them of their ill ones; let our Dealings be just to them in every Respect, and shew no ill Example, whereby they may think we advise them to practise that which we will not be conformable to ourselves: Let them have cheap Penniworths (without Guile in our Trading with them) and learn them the Mysteries of our Handicrafts, as well as our
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Miss Derby.; p. 345: reticent of and remarks] reticent of any remarks; p. 346: forwarn] forewarn.
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