The phrase "forbid himself" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express that someone is prohibiting themselves from or refraining from doing something. For example: Joe had to forbid himself from buying any more video games this year.
He was notoriously guarded as a player, much more comfortable playing the game than talking about it or, heaven forbid, himself.
He forbid himself to talk, read, or write.
I'm not going to shut this asshole up by telling him I like men, first of all because it's none of his business, and second because he'd just offer me his brother or, god forbid, himself.
He forbade himself any personal contact with musicians, on the ground that it might influence his judgment.
In his home, he permitted only Armenian to be spoken, and yet he forbade himself and his family to speak it on the streets.
Then came No Art, a year-long stint during which he forbade himself to create, view, talk about or read about art.
Track back through the Hoffman œuvre, and you discover nothing but the traces of a pro — an actor who forbade himself to look down upon a project, or, if he secretly did, to share that condescension with the viewer.
Track back through the Hoffman œuvre, and you discover nothing but the traces of a pro an actor who forbade himself to look down upon a project, or, if he secretly did, to share that condescension with the viewer.
For a year or so, around 1990, he made a practice of lying in bed every Saturday morning, forbidding himself to get up until he'd thought of something new.
A billion or two extra on the surplus this year could easily be offset in a later year.Mr Brown's preoccupation with stability also constrains his efforts at redistribution: he has in effect forbidden himself from spending more on the poor unless he has the wherewithal to finance it.
The NBA claimed the lawsuit was void because Schultz signed a release forbidding himself to sue Bennett's group, but also argued that the proposal would have violated league ownership rules.
