Forbidding Definition

Forbidding Sentence Examples

• She opened her eyes, forbidding herself from screaming as the pavement below grew closer.

• The harsh treatment of the Hanoverian demands was inspired by him, and won favour with the queen, while Oxford's influence declined; and by his support of the Schism Bill in May 1714, a violent Tory measure forbidding all education by dissenters by making an episcopal licence obligatory for schoolmasters, he probably intended to compel Oxford to give up the game.

• In 16J3 the town was nearly destroyed by fire, and it again suffered in 1679 and 1690; after which an act was passed forbidding the use of thatch.

• The danger was felt by the university of Cambridge, which in 1674 passed a statute forbidding its preachers to read their sermons.

• On Easter Sunday the queen ventured to display her personal preference for the Protestant conception of the eucharist by forbidding the celebrant in her chapel to elevate the host.