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Forbidden fruit   /fˈɔrbɪdən frut/   Listen
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Forbidden  adj.  Prohibited; interdicted. "I know no spells, use no forbidden arts."
Forbidden fruit.
(a)
Any coveted unlawful pleasure, so called with reference to the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden.
(b)
(Bot.) A small variety of shaddock (Citrus decumana). The name is given in different places to several varieties of Citrus fruits.






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"Forbidden fruit" Quotes from Famous Books



... It was said that, in the day in which Adam should eat forbidden fruit, he should die; but he did not lose his animal life, or his rational nature. His loss therefore is usually considered by the Quakers to have been a divine spiritual principle, which had been originally superadded to the animal ...
— A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume II (of 3) • Thomas Clarkson

... sooner. No young girl, however much she loves a man, is quite ready for that first kiss. A man's lips upon her own are too contrary to her instinct and previous training to make them an unalloyed pleasure. The girl who is over-ready for her lover's first kiss, has tasted the forbidden fruit already, or has waited ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford

... transept—an arrangement, be it observed, unknown to Enrica—all his feelings changed. From the moment he saw her he loved her with all the fervor of his ardent nature; from that moment he knew that he had never loved before. The mystery of their stolen meetings, the sweet flavor of this forbidden fruit—and what man does not love forbidden fruit better than labeled pleasures?—the innocent frankness with which Enrica confessed her love, her unbounded faith in him—all served to heighten his passion. He gloried—he ...
— The Italians • Frances Elliot

... unconscious of the swift justice that was coming to him from out of the wilderness. This was man's law, whatever the written law might be. Not for one instant did his determination waver or his conviction falter. D'Arcy had partaken of forbidden fruit—partaken of it consciously, without regard for any suffering it might cause to others—and ...
— Colorado Jim • George Goodchild

... not lightly dashed. "Oh, la, la, la!" chuckled the Sieur d'Arnaye, "she would never have given you a second thought, monsieur le vicomte, had I not labelled you forbidden fruit. As it is, my last conspiracy, while a little ruthless, I grant you, turns out admirably. Jack has his Jill, and all ends merrily, like an old song. I will begin on those pig-sties ...
— The Line of Love - Dizain des Mariages • James Branch Cabell


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