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foolishness|ˈfuːlɪʃnɪs|
[f. as foolishly adv. + -ness.]
1. The quality or condition of being foolish.
c1470Henry Wallace v. 631 Quhat is this luff? no thing bot folychnes. 1611Bible Ps. xxxviii. 5 My wounds stinke..because of my foolishness. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. vi. 442 Converts their wisedome into foolishnesse. 1718Prior Solomon ii. 900, I..shape my Foolishness to their Desire. 1858Doran Crt. Fools 95 Listening to the pretended foolishness of a jester.
2. A foolish practice, act, or thing; an absurdity.
1535Coverdale Wisd. xix. 3 They deuysed another foolishnes. 1553Udall Flowers Latine (1560) 88 b, It is a foolishnesse to suffer that ill to bee dooen, that a man maye auoyde. 1843J. B. Robertson tr. Moehler's Symbolism I. 40 Those opinions, which make the doctrine of the fall a foolishness. |