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forbanning

forbanning is the present participle and gerund of forban.

Meaning of forban

Verb

forban (third-person singular simple present forbans, present participle forbanning, simple past and past participle forbanned)

  1. (archaic, obsolete, poetic, rare, transitive) To exile; banish.
    • That lower down it constitutes correspondential phytostatics, or pressure of vegetable life, grasping matter close with prolonged human fingers in the trees, and forbanning materialism from the very stones.1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation

Questions about forbanning

What is forbanning the present participle and gerund of?
Forbanning is the present participle and gerund of forban.

Words near forbanning in the dictionary

  1. forbanish
  2. forbanished
  3. forbanishes
  4. forbanishing
  5. forbanned
  6. forbanning
  7. forbar
  8. forbare
  9. forbarred
  10. forbars
  11. forbathe

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