Unforbidding
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Not forbidding.
"It has, of late more particularly, assumed not only an unforbidding, but even an engaging form, by the facility with which many of its most important researches are now conducted, and by the extension of them to numerous objects which had not before been attended to by the old spagyrists."
Example
More examples"It has, of late more particularly, assumed not only an unforbidding, but even an engaging form, by the facility with which many of its most important researches are now conducted, and by the extension of them to numerous objects which had not before been attended to by the old spagyrists."
Etymology
From un- + forbidding. Attested since the 18th century.
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