forbidder
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]forbidder (plural forbidders)
- One who forbids.
- 1674, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 238, lines 813–816:
- [...] [A]nd other care perhaps / May have diverted from continual watch / Our great Forbidder, ſafe with all his Spies / About him.
Further reading
[edit]- “forbidder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.