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forbidding(dictionary)

onward (iou) and forbidding (oh)


onward (iou)



onward preposition, adverb, & adjective. ME.
[from ON adverb + -WARD, after inward, forward, etc.]
A. preposition. On; over. Long rare. ME-M17.
b. adverb.
In advance; towards the final settlement, provisionally. LME-M16.
a. Situated further on; ahead. Now rare. LME.
b. Further on in time. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
a. In the direction of what is ahead; towards the front; with advancing motion; forward. LME.
T. Hardy Johns and my man have gone onward to the little inn.
b. Forward in time; in succession. M17.
P. Gay From his earliest days onward Freud had been surrounded by women.
C. adjective.
In advance in time or space; advanced. Long rare or obsolete. L16.
Directed or moving onward or forward; advancing. L17.
Tennyson Vast eddies in the flood Of onward time.
onwardness noun the state or condition of moving onward; advance, progression, progress: M16.
onwards adverb (a) = ONWARD adverb 1; (b) onward, esp. in time: LME.

forbidding (oh)



having a frightening or unfriendly appearance
forbidding place/land/landscape etc
::We sailed past the island's rather dark and forbidding cliffs.
::His face was forbidding, even hostile.
-- forbiddingly adv