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Noun: forbiddance  fu(r)'bi-d(u)n(t)s or for'bi-d(u)n(t)s
  1. An official prohibition or edict against something
    - ban, banning, forbidding
     
  2. The action of prohibiting, inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
    "he ignored his parents' forbiddance";
    - prohibition, inhibition

Derived forms: forbiddances

Type of: action, prohibition

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