unforbidden

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Linked essays examine the idea that forbidden pleasures have a tendency to obscure the meaningfulness to our lives of the unforbidden ones.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2016

We began being "unforbidden" when we started building motorways in the early 1960s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2011

There were no scarecrows about and no one ever made an effort to drive the birds away, so they were accustomed to plucking the unforbidden fruit of this garden.

From The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest by Vandercook, Margaret

Her heart gave an unforbidden leap, and was promptly taken to task for it.

From The Enchanted Barn by Hill, Grace Livingston

Then it is forbidden until Trinity Sunday, from whence it is unforbidden till Advent Sunday, but then it goes out, and comes not in again till the 13th of January next following.”

From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by Andrews, William