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

And Celeste, with her fair face flushed with shame—her bosom heaving with sobs as though her gentle heart would break—was led away to the now unforbidden refectory, and left alone in her deep sorrow.

From Sharing Her Crime by Fleming, May Agnes

Several crows were pecking away at the carcass unforbidden by Barbe, who petted crows as his inferiors.

From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

She even told of her unsanctioned but unforbidden engagement, and of its termination; yearning to be told that she had been hasty and hard, and to be bidden to revoke her rejection.

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary