forbode
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Alternative form of forebode.
Example Sentences
- "God's/The Lord's forbode"
- "So Moses himself explaineth it in the words here folowing, and in v. 13. 22. 27. commandements ]or, charges: meaning prohibitions, or forbodes. For God commandeth both to eschew evil, and to doe good."
- "Thus Cloudesle cleft the apple in two, That many a man might see; "Over God's forbode," said the king, "That thou shoot at me!""
- "FIRST SHEPHERD. God's forbode thou spare't and thou drink every deal.⁷ ⁷ God's forbode ... deal God forbid (literally "God's forbidding") that you refrain from drinking even if you drink it all."
Etymology
From Middle English forbode, forbod, from Old English forbod (“a forbidding, prohibition”), from Proto-Germanic *frabudą (“prohibition”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, fully perceive”), equivalent to for- + bode. Cognate with Dutch verbod, German Verbot, Danish forbud, Swedish förbud. More at forbid.