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forban en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English forbannen, partly from Middle English for- + bannen, equivalent to for- + ban; and partly from Old French forbenir (“to banish”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferbonne (“to banish”), West Frisian ferbanne (“to banish”), Dutch verbannen (“to banish”), German Low German verbannen (“to banish”), German verbannen (“to banish”), Swedish förbanna (“to curse, damn”).

Meanings

1. (archaic, obsolete, poetic, rare, transitive) To exile; banish.
   • Lost from those archangelic thrones that star, Fadeless and fixed, heaven's light of azure bliss; Forbanned of all His splendor and depressed Beyond the birth of the first sun, and lower Than the last star's decline 1918, Clark Ashton Smith, "Satan Unrepentant"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Satan_Unrepentant (also on page 295 of the 2014 collection The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies)
   • Kenneth Meredith has noted that the coutumiers of northern France "usually called for the confiscation of the property of both executed criminals and persons who had been forbanned." 2013, Daniel Lord Smail, The Consumption of Justice:
   • That lower down it constitutes correspondential phytostatics, or pressure of vegetable life, grasping matter close with prolonged human fingers in the trees, and forbanning materialism from the very stones. 1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation:

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