forbidder

noun

forbidder

noun

Etymology From forbid + -er.

1

One who forbids.

[...] [A]nd other care perhaps / May have diverted from continual watch / Our great Forbidder, ſafe with all his Spies / About him.1674, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 238, lines 813–816:

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