Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See forfend.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See forfend.

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  • verb Alternative spelling of forfend.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening

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Examples

  • Because these threads owe so much to the Tea Partyers and their success in KY with Rand Paul, who you have not said is other than representative of libertarians, I would like to know what we might expect of such people if, Heaven forefend, they were elected to public office, let alone the US Senate.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities 2010

  • Young people love soccer not because of some kind of commie-nazi plot conjured by Saul Alinsky to sap us of our precious juices, but because it's -- heaven forefend -- fun.

    Dave Zirin: Glenn Beck's Blues: Why the Far Right Hates Soccer 2010

  • Young people love soccer not because of some kind of commie-nazi plot conjured by Saul Alinsky to sap us of our precious juices, but because it's -- heaven forefend -- fun.

    Dave Zirin: Glenn Beck's Blues: Why the Far Right Hates Soccer 2010

  • Because these threads owe so much to the Tea Partyers and their success in KY with Rand Paul, who you have not said is other than representative of libertarians, I would like to know what we might expect of such people if, Heaven forefend, they were elected to public office, let alone the US Senate.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities 2010

  • Fortunately, fans of Fatally-Yours.com, forefend your mundane fear for one that you can stop and start with a flick of a flexible finger with…Wilderness Survival for Girls.

    Wilderness Survival for Girls (2004) 2010

  • Now, the person doing the explaining is also mighty elliptical about the whole thing: heaven forefend that someone should come right out and say: Look, you can't do that because these bad things will happen.

    George MacDonald Completely Loses Me Karen Burnham 2010

  • Young people love soccer not because of some kind of commie-Nazi plot conjured by Saul Alinsky to sap us of our precious juices, but because it's -- heaven forefend -- fun.

    Dave Zirin: Glenn Beck's Blues: Why the Far Right Hates Soccer 2010

  • Now, the person doing the explaining is also mighty elliptical about the whole thing: heaven forefend that someone should come right out and say: Look, you can't do that because these bad things will happen.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Karen Burnham 2010

  • But Heaven forefend that they be actually diverse, individual human beings, unranked and uncontrolled.

    THE TIME IS NOW 2009

  • Thus, we are trained to swallow impish notions that to cease making one abysmal mistake after the next is "cutting and running" or "giving up" or forefend, "quitting."

    James Campion: Afghanistan: The Original Quagmire 2009

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