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Forbiddance definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FORBID'DANCE, n. Prohibition; command or edict against a thing. [Little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an official prohibition or edict against something [syn: ban, banning, forbiddance, 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, forbiddance]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1611 the act of forbidding

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.