Meaning of forwarn | Babel Free

Definitions

To prohibit; forbid; deny (right, access to, etc.).

transitive

Examples

“Oh Cousin this wicked Duoena, this Grycta suspects the good Woman who brought the Letter, and has forwarn'd her the House.”

“I meet the Workman by Mr. Pemberton's Gate, and forewarn him from making of it; [...]”

“[...] having been caught putting the inside of the master's desk to a use for which the architect had clearly not designed it, to justify himself, with great simplicity averred, that he did not know that the thing had been forewarned.”

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