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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).
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
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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