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Webster 1828 Edition


Forbidding

FORBID'DING

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ppr.
1.
Prohibiting; hindering.
2.
a. Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion or dislike; disagreeable; as a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.

FORBID'DING

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Noun.
Hindrance; opposition.