Forbidding vs Prohibit - What's the difference?
forbidding | prohibit |
The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
* William Shakespeare
To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
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As verbs the difference between forbidding and prohibit
is that forbidding is while prohibit is to forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.As an adjective forbidding
is highly unpleasant or disagreeable.As a noun forbidding
is the act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.forbidding
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(en noun)- But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him.
prohibit
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(en verb)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited , yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}