The act of completely destroying, ruining, or undoing something.
Gerund form of 'fordoe,' formed by adding '-ing' to the base verb. This verbal noun form was common in Middle and Early Modern English for abstract actions.
Medieval writers loved '-doing' nouns—'forboding,' 'misgiving,' 'undoing'—because they could talk about abstract destructive actions as if they were physical things happening. 'His fordoing of the castle was swift and terrible.'
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