Hypertext Webster Gateway: "forbiddance"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Forbiddance \For*bid"dance\, n.
The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against
a thing. [Obs.]
ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict
forbiddance. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
forbiddance
n 1: an official prohibition or edict against something [syn: {ban},
{banning}, {forbidding}]
2: the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an
instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition
in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic
beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance" [syn: {prohibition},
{inhibition}]
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