[f. as prec. + -ANCE.] The action of forbidding, an instance of this; prohibition, interdiction; also, a command or edict against (something).
1608–11. Bp. Hall, Epist., v. Forbiddance doth but whet desire.
1739. Cibber, Apol. (1756), I. 180. Great Umbrage was taken, that I was permitted, to have the whole Town to myself, by this absolute Forbiddance of what, they had more mind to have been entertain’d with.
1855. R. Boyle, B. v. Wiseman, 26. The act of forbiddance to say mass.
1873. Ouida, Pascarèl, I. vii. 98. My father’s forbiddance had taken from me many of my old pleasures; and the failure of funds had arrested all continuance of my education.
