Definition of "forefend" [fore•fend]

• Variant of forfend. (verb)

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• "Because these threads owe so much to the Tea Partyers and their success in KY with Rand Paul, who you have not said is other than representative of libertarians, I would like to know what we might expect of such people if, Heaven forefend, they were elected to public office, let alone the US Senate."
• "Young people love soccer not because of some kind of commie-nazi plot conjured by Saul Alinsky to sap us of our precious juices, but because it's -- heaven forefend -- fun."
• "Young people love soccer not because of some kind of commie-Nazi plot conjured by Saul Alinsky to sap us of our precious juices, but because it's -- heaven forefend -- fun."