forbidding
Collocations
4ADJ.
disagreeable, grave, harsh, most, strict
VERB + FORBIDDING
having, re-introduced, rule
FORBIDDING + NOUN
bed, countena, endurance, night, workers
PREP.
despite, in, with
Definitions
adj
Appearing to be threatening, unfriendly or potentially unpleasant.
What cause, cry’d he, can justify our flight, To tempt the dangers of forbidding night?
[…] he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.
noun
The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him;
1920, St. John G. Ervine, The Foolish Lovers, London: W. Collins & Sons, Chapter 3, VIII, p. 228, All law was composed of hindrances and obstacles and forbiddings, and therefore he was entirely opposed to Law.
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6What cause, cry’d he, can justify our flight, To tempt the dangers of forbidding night?
Wiktionary[…] he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countena
WiktionaryWith no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made,
WiktionaryBut all these poor forbiddings could not stay him;
Wiktionary1920, St. John G. Ervine, The Foolish Lovers, London: W. Collins & Sons, Chapter 3, VIII, p. 228, All law was composed of hindrances and obstacles and forbiddings, and therefore he was entirely oppose
WiktionaryThere is a very strict rule forbidding smoking in bed.
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