📚 Forfend, verb. 🔉 /fɔːˈfɛnd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object • archaic): Avert or prevent (something evil or unpleasant) ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘The fiend forfend’ said the grim Earl. 2. This forfends what one may call the natural development of the natural man so overlaid with social man. 3. Brenda forfended this possibility by isolating groups of sculptures inside a designated pathway: they stood aloof from touch save by imagination. 4. Thus a tradition died, and thus the Masters and Wardens of today rejoice in a happy immunity, all unknowing of the danger their predecessors forfended. 5. The reinforcement with the additional U-shaped flexible elongated metal folder improves the structure of conventional end hook in enhancing considerably the strength to withstand the stress of impact, forfending the usual disadvantage of fracture or rupture of the tape and rivet failure. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic