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.
- That may or may not be true (Bibi Netanyahu duplicitous — heaven forfend!).
- Heavens forfend that any reader of Wikipedia should ever reach a conclusion.
- I’ll forfend from the typical look at all the vendors photograph, you’ve seen them before.
- 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.
- I little knew, and less I cared, for I lived always in the moment and let others forecast, forfend, and travail their anxiety.
- Heaven forfend and forbear that we actually admit we have “wiggly bits” under our clothes, much less during “family” viewing hours.
- One might never find any pork in its establishments, heaven forfend, but piggishness apparently meets the strictest standards of kashrut.
- Heaven forfend if Ed had been female: in this sort of ordering, all girls, however talented or aged, come lower than the youngest of boys.
- [Footnote: Cf. the prefix "for -" in English "forfend," to keep away, to avert, "forbid," to exclude from, to command against, "forbear," to refrain from, etc.]
- It appears to do quite well in the marketplace as things stand, and lumping it together with the mainstream might, heaven forfend, see a decline in the sale of fantasy trilogies.
- This is partly because the work's previous presentation in a Broadway house under the auspices of Cameron Mackintosh, known for blockbuster musicals, stirred up a somewhat antagonistic debate: Is this theater or, h eaven forfend, a ballet?
- The question itself might seem vaguely offensive, but one has to wonder given the howls about Obama “apologizing for America” anytime he publicly intimates that any past foreign policy of the United States might have been mistaken — or, heaven forfend, even be the source of some degree of international animus against us.
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