How To Use Forfend In A Sentence
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The reinforcement with the additional U-shaped flexible elongated metal folder improves the structure of conventional end hook in enhancing considerably the strength to withstand the stress of impact, forfending the usual disadvantage of fracture or rupture of the tape and rivet failure.
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I little knew, and less I cared, for I lived always in the moment and let others forecast, forfend, and travail their anxiety.
Chapter 15
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It appears to do quite well in the marketplace as things stand, and lumping it together with the mainstream might, heaven forfend, see a decline in the sale of fantasy trilogies.
MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 2)
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[Footnote: Cf. the prefix "for -" in English "forfend," to keep away, to avert, "forbid," to exclude from, to command against, "forbear," to refrain from, etc.]
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto
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This forfends what one may call the natural development of the natural man so overlaid with social man.
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She shows how they too forfended Moscow's revolution while they could, and what became of those exiled to Kazakhstan.
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Then he called Sir Bors, Sir Ector de Maris, and Sir Lionel, and told them how the queen had forfended him the court, and so he was in will to depart into his own country.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Heaven forfend and forbear that we actually admit we have “wiggly bits” under our clothes, much less during “family” viewing hours.
Blocking the information highway
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Thus a tradition died, and thus the Masters and Wardens of today rejoice in a happy immunity, all unknowing of the danger their predecessors forfended.
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“He came to us in fulsome state and told us of thee a thing which Heaven forfend; and the slave added a lie which it befitteth not to repeat, Allah preserve thy youth and sound sense and tongue of eloquence, and forbid to come from thee aught of offense!”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Brenda forfended this possibility by isolating groups of sculptures inside a designated pathway: they stood aloof from touch save by imagination.
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You weren't looking for another mother -- heaven forfend, as Hub used to say.
PROSPECT HILL
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Heaven forfend if Ed had been female: in this sort of ordering, all girls, however talented or aged, come lower than the youngest of boys.
Why treat Ed Miliband as a younger son who should 'know his place'?
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I’ll forfend from the typical look at all the vendors photograph, you’ve seen them before.
Of Coups and Cowboy Hats; my Fall-IN! 2009 Travelogue « Third Point of Singularity
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And if, heaven forfend, that other guy worms his way into office again, we're really going to have to work together to defend the beloved republic.
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You weren't looking for another mother -- heaven forfend, as Hub used to say.
PROSPECT HILL
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The question itself might seem vaguely offensive, but one has to wonder given the howls about Obama “apologizing for America” anytime he publicly intimates that any past foreign policy of the United States might have been mistaken — or, heaven forfend, even be the source of some degree of international animus against us.
We Never Make Mistakes
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This is partly because the work's previous presentation in a Broadway house under the auspices of Cameron Mackintosh, known for blockbuster musicals, stirred up a somewhat antagonistic debate: Is this theater or, h eaven forfend, a ballet?
Fair Feathered Friends
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If only she had had to play genuinely quietly, or without vibrato, or (heaven forfend) unbeautifully!
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The likelihood of suffering from PTSD is cumulative, meaning that if PTSD could be measured so effectively, and thus forfended a soldier who spends a year and a half in Iraq but comes within a tenth of getting full-blown PTSD will still be 90% of the way to PTSD when they return a year later.
On the Scene at the Iraq Hearings - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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That may or may not be true (Bibi Netanyahu duplicitous — heaven forfend!).
The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
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To be so rhythmic while a rhymester - may heaven forfend!
