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tree of knowledge

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tree of knowledge
n.
The tree in the Garden of Eden whose forbidden fruit Adam and Eve tasted.
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Noun1.tree of knowledgetree of knowledge - the biblical tree in the Garden of Eden whose forbidden fruit was tasted by Adam and Eve
tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms


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She tried several ballads, but found them inadequate; till, recollecting the psalter that her eyes had so often wandered over of a Sunday morning before she had eaten of the tree of knowledge, she chanted: "O ye Sun and Moon .
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
And so the poor child, with her soul's hunger and her illusions of self-flattery, began to nibble at this thick-rinded fruit of the tree of knowledge, filling her vacant hours with Latin, geometry, and the forms of the syllogism, and feeling a gleam of triumph now and then that her understanding was quite equal to these peculiarly masculine studies.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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