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Definition of forbiddance : The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.

Synonyms:

forbidding, banning, allow, interdiction, taboo, prohibition era

denial, repudiation, abscission, banishment, relegation, eradication, excommunication, disallowance, prohibition, ejection, proscription, boycott, excision, deportation, amputation, exile, exclusion, extradition, ostracism, rejection, expatriation, disbarment, removal, ban, elimination, renouncement

blockade, restriction, disapproval, prevention, inhibition, injunction, suppression, refusal, preclusion, restraint, bar, constraint, curtailment

Usage examples:

• The Father's No. Shutting us in with its grand, gentle forbiddance. - "The Other Girls", Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
• The Lease was a strange forbiddance, a ukase issued by a tyrant, which took from children their natural liberties and rights. - "The Children's Book of Christmas Stories", Various.