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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. an official prohibition or edict against something;
[syn: ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding]

2. the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof);
- Example: "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"
- Example: "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"
- Example: "he ignored his parents' forbiddance"
[syn: prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Forbiddance \For*bid"dance\, n.
   The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against
   a thing. [Obs.]
   [1913 Webster]

         How hast thou yield to transgress
         The strict forbiddance.                  --Milton.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

forbiddance
    n 1: an official prohibition or edict against something [syn:
         ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding]
    2: the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an
       instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in
       their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic
       beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance" [syn:
       prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance]