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FOREFEND

Definition: FOREFEND

FOREFEND

Transitive verb

1. To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FOREFEND" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references)

Etymology: Forefend \Fore*fend"\, transitive verb. [from Old English expression forfenden; prefix for- fenden to fend. See Fend, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: FOREFEND

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Deprecation

Interjection: cry you mercy! God forbid! forbid it Heaven! Heaven forefend, Heaven forbid! far be it from! hands off!; (prohibition); please don't.

Hindrance

Keep off, stave off, ward off; obviate; avert, antevert; turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud; retard, slacken, check, let; counteract, countercheck; preclude, debar, foreclose, estop; inhibit; shackle; (restrain); restrict.

Prohibition

Verb: prohibit, inhibit; forbid, put one's veto upon, disallow, enjoin, ban, outlaw, taboo, proscribe, estop; bar; debar; (hinder), forefend.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Derivations & Misspellings: FOREFEND

Derivations

Words beginning with "FOREFEND": forefended, forefending, forefends. (additional references)


Misspellings

"FOREFEND" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: foreien. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: FOREFEND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: offender.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-f-n-o-r"

-1 letter: forfend, offered.

-2 letters: doffer, fender, fonder, offend, redone, reffed.

-3 letters: defer, donee, drone, ender, erode, freed, frond, offed, offer, redon, refed.

-4 letters: deer, dene, dere, doer, doff, done, dore, dree, erne, feed, fend, feod, fere, fern, fond, ford, fore, free, froe, need, nerd, node, rede, redo, reed, reef, rend, rode.

-5 letters: dee, den, doe, don.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-f-n-o-r"
 

+1 letter: forefends, forfended, offenders.

 

+2 letters: forefended.

 

+3 letters: forefending.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FOREFEND


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 4F 52 45 46 45 4E 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    ---    .-.    .    ..-.    .    -.    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001111 01010010 01000101 01000110 01000101 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#79 &#82 &#69 &#70 &#69 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 004F 0052 0045 0046 0045 004E 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4049523940394838

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Derivations
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography 		5. Bibliography


  

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