Origin: Latin suffix -ance
Forbiddance has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
an official prohibition or edict against something
the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
"they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"
"a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"
"he ignored his parents' forbiddance"
An act of forbidding, prohibition; an official edict against something.