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▪ I. forbidding, vbl. n.|fəˈbɪdɪŋ|
[see -ing1.]
The action of the vb. forbid; a prohibition.
a1300Cursor M. 20527 (Cott.) He ete ogain mi forbidding. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 85 Þis forbedyng is colourid by holynesse. 1601Donne Progr. Soul ix. Poems (1633) 5 Her whom the first man did wive, Whom, and her race, only forbiddings drive. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 753 But his forbidding Commends thee more. 1740Cheyne Regimen 142 It amounts almost to a total Forbidding.
▪ II. forbidding, ppl. a.|fəˈbɪdɪŋ|
[see -ing2.]
1. That forbids, in senses of the vb.
1573Baret Alv. F 849 Forbidding, vetans. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 475 But they Dreaded not more th' adventure then his voice Forbidding.
2. esp. That forbids, or disinclines to, a nearer approach; repellent, repulsive, uninviting:
a. chiefly of a person, his manner, looks, etc.
1712Budgell Spect. No. 301 ⁋2 That awful Cast of the Eye and forbidding Frown. 1717Berkeley Tour in Italy 3 June Wks. 1871 IV. 560 Doors and entrances of the houses dirty and forbidding. 1837M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 199 A forbidding-looking creature. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop iii, An elderly man of remarkably hard features and forbidding aspect. 1863F. A. Kemble Resid. in Georgia 21, I do not know that I ever saw any winged creature of so forbidding an aspect.
b. of a country, sea-coast, the weather, etc.
1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World (1757) 280 Although the land is so desart and forbidding. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xxvi. 264 We saw the same forbidding wall of belt-ice. 1860Merc. Marine Mag. VII. 262 The coast..is exceedingly rocky and forbidding. 1887T. Hardy Woodlanders II. i. 8 The morning looked forbidding enough.
Hence forˈbiddingly adv.; forˈbiddingness.
1848Craig, Forbiddingly. 1880Kinglake Crimea VI vi. 75 The..Ravine..[was] forbiddingly hard to crest. 1883E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Dec. 45/1 The Beacon hills..frown forbiddingly. |