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third-person singular simple present forfends, present participle forfending, simple past and past participle forfended
(archaic) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert. quotations
Clown: … You would know where Lord Anthonie is? I perceiue you. Shall I ſay he is in yond farme houſe? I deceiue you. Shall I tell you this wine is for him? the gods forfend, and ſo I end. Go fellow fighters theres a bob for ye.
1594, Thomas Lodge, The Wounds of Civil War, act 4, scene 1, page 54
What? Multi-posting? Usenet Gods forfend!
2008, Lew, short circuit operators, [email protected]
People have long given thought to the causes of danger and how they might be forfended.
2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, page 271