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forefend

VT ปกป้อง คุ้มครอง  foreend

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FOREFEND

v.t. 1. To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent approach; to forbid or prohibit.
2. To defend; to guard; to secure.
This word, like the L. arceo, is applied to the thing assailing, and to the thing assailed. To drive back or resist that which assails, is to hinder its approach, to forbid or avert, and this act defends the thing threatened or assailed.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FOREFEND

Fore *fend ", v. t. Etym: [OE. forfenden; pref. for- + fenden to fend. See Fend, v. t.]

 

Defn: To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend. God forefend it should ever be recorded in our history. Landor. It would be a far better work. .. to forefend the cruelty. I.Taylor.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

forefend

fore fend ▶verb variant spelling of forfend ( sense 2 ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

forefend

fore |fend ▶verb variant spelling of forfend ( sense 2 ).

 

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