Definition of Forbidden fruit

1. Noun. Originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden; it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality).

Generic synonyms: Enticement, Temptation

Definition of Forbidden fruit

1. Noun. The fruit forbidden to Adam. ¹

2. Noun. (idiomatic) Illicit pleasure. ¹

3. Noun. Something desired that cannot be had. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forbidden Fruit

forbearances
forbearant
forbeare
forbearer
forbearers
forbearing
forbearingly
forbears
forbeat
forbid
forbidal
forbidals
forbiddance
forbiddances
forbidden
forbidden fruit (current term)
forbidden fruit is the sweetest
forbiddenly
forbidder
forbidders
forbiddest
forbiddeth
forbidding
forbiddingly
forbids
forbise
forbisen
forbisens
forbite
forblack

Literary usage of Forbidden fruit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"Where reason must enlightened souls confute, To common earth ‘tis still forbidden fruit; For all in torrents his inventions flow, And drown the little vales ..."

2. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1889)
"forbidden fruit's New England's choice, She claims it as her due; forbidden fruit, with heart and voice, The Colonies pursue. forbidden fruit our parents ..."

3. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1889)
"Some extemporaneous lines, on the source of human misery, here called, forbidden fruit, written about the beginning of the aforesaid time or change. ..."

4. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"Jf OR eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge was Adam driven out of paradise, in exilium vita tempora- lis, " into the banishment of temporal ..."

5. Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time: In the Olden by John Fanning Watson (1857)
"forbidden fruit's in every state The source of human wo; forbidden fruit our ... forbidden fruit's rebellion's cause, In ev'ry sense and time: Forbidden ..."

6. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"Or Gt tempting with forbidden fruit EM \, 8 Hang their old Trophies oVr the G. gates S. .... forbidden fruit ..."

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