forbidder

English

Etymology

forbid +‎ -er

Noun

forbidder (plural forbidders)

1. One who forbids.
   • 1674, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 238, lines 813–816:

     [...] [A]nd other care perhaps / May have diverted from continual watch / Our great Forbidder, ſafe with all his Spies / About him.

Further reading

• “forbidder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.