Crossword clues for forfend
forfend
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forfend \For*fend"\, v. t. [Pref. for- + fend. See Forewend.] To prohibit; to forbid; to avert. [Archaic]
Which peril heaven forefend!
--Shak.
Note: This is etymologically the preferable spelling.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (context dated English) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
Usage examples of "forfend".
Gods forfend, too, that the old man should take to faith in his own gods at this pass.
The prior, however, hath so ordered that while he holds this cross no man may lay hand upon him without the ban of church, which heaven forfend from me or mine.
Since you have forfended these strokes from Falael, the logic of circumstances diverts them to your own crawling hide.
Black Mango concealed now, her own unnameable names still warm upon her lips, she cried, 'Heaven forfend!
But, trusting in our Saviour to forfend him against all harmful enchantments and the necromancies of Satan, he rode on among the rocks until he came forth at length from their misshapen shadows.
He was not, God forfend, a precog, but there were also tunes when a man simply had to dispense with rational thought and its consequences.