forbiddal
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editforbiddal (countable and uncountable, plural forbiddals)
- (archaic) The act of forbidding something.
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 193:
- The priests and elders among early folk no doubt took the line of forbiddal of activities, as safer and simpler, even if carried sometimes too far, than the opposite, of easy permission and encouragement.