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English Dictionary: forbiddance	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for forbiddance
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
forbiddance n an official prohibition or edict against something [syn: ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding] 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" Synonym(s): prohibition, inhibition, 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.