| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening.[Wordnet]
2. To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.[Websters] 3. Base verb from the following inflections: forfending, forfended, forfends, forfender, forfenders, forfendingly and forfendedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FORFEND" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
| Note: Forfend \For*fend"\, transitive verb. [Prefix for- fend. See Forewend.]. (references) |
