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The meaning of FORBID is to proscribe from or as if from the position of one in authority : command against. How to use forbid in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Forbid.
The letters XOXO stand for hugs and kisses. Linguists and relationship therapists break down where the term originated, and how to use it to express love today.
It seems that persons in the descending or ascending line, however remote from each other, cannot lawfully marry; such marriages are against nature; but when we come to consider collateral, it is not so easy to fix the forbidden degrees, by clear and established principles. In several of ...
love as pharmakonforbidden loveemancipation of womanloci communes of the courtly romances in the Romanian Popular BooksThis study analyses two of the most representative popular books of the period, The History of Erotocrit and Aretusa and The History of Filerot and Anthusa, focusing not only on...
and writers of usage books, it was expressly forbidden. To quell the fires of the argument, some usage authorities attempted to regulate use of the two forms—recommending persons when counting a small, specific number of individuals (Three persons were injured in the accident) and people when ...
Intuitions of “cosmic meaning” root in hunger for personal significance, and in encounters with vastness.
There’s an air of the forbidden, perhaps, or of wanting what one cannot have; there’s also the idea of two lovers meeting each other after one of them has already settled down with someone they are not in love with – or at least, not any more. Such a sentiment was hardly new ...
FromNew York Times An early American review of “Chocolat” compared its “intertwined themes of colonialism and forbidden love” to one of Somerset Maugham’s steamy Malaysian melodramas. FromNew York Times Supreme Court to intervene, if it felt Scotland had overreached, said Maugham, the lawyer...