[see -ING1.] The action of the vb. FORBID; a prohibition.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 20527 (Cott.). He ete ogain mi forbidding.
a. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 85. Þis forbedyng is colourid by holynesse.
1601. Donne, Progr. Soul, ix. Poems (1633), 5.
| Her whom the first man did wive, | |
| Whom, and her race, only forbiddings drive. |
1667. Milton, P. L., IX. 753.
| Forbids us then to taste, but his forbidding | |
| Commends thee more, while it inferrs the good | |
| By thee communicated, and our want. |
1740. Cheyne, Regimen, 142. It amounts almost to a total Forbidding, and a Warning from prying with too much Eagerness into this mysterious Affair.
