Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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But Heaven forefend that they be actually diverse, individual human beings, unranked and uncontrolled.
THE TIME IS NOW 2009
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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."
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