forfend
IPA: fˈɔrfʌnd
verb
- (archaic) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
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Examples of "forfend" in Sentences
- Stretching forfends injuries.
- Of course, God forfend you are like that.
- Heaven forfend we should be unfair to Dukes.
- Heaven forfend our biographied subject ever get praised.
- Heaven forfend that another person disagrees with his idiocy.
- To forfend the anger of the spirits, he must pass a stronger ordeal.
- Heavens forfend that any reader of Wikipedia should ever reach a conclusion.
- She might even, heaven forfend, indulge in some surgically assisted quot;freshening up quot;.
- Heaven forfend if any other nation sought to prohibit its nationals from complying with US law in the US.
- One might never find any pork in its establishments, heaven forfend, but piggishness apparently meets the strictest standards of kashrut.