Foolery

Definition of Foolery

Fool´er`y
n.1.The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity.
Folly in fools bears not so strong a note,
As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote.
- Shak.
2.An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical.
That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected.
- Sir W. Raleigh.

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