Appearing to be threatening, unfriendly or potentially unpleasant.
What cause, cry’d he, can justify our flight, To tempt the dangers of forbidding night?
present participle and gerund of forbid
The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him;
By surface analysis, forbid + -ing.
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