Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
folly .
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Examples
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Hey maybe Fox news can try to bamboozle the public by flashing a picture of former Democratic house speaker Tom foley ……..hey it,ll probally convince millions of Fox watchers the democrats are responsible….. and maybe mark foly can become the next Jimmy Swagart on cable !
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Translatour, exhorting the fooles accloyed with this vice, to amende their foly.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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Why shulde ye spare hym then? because such foly I am wont to despise, not to folowe.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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The dogges one by one murthered, thei dis - solued the peace, and wearied the Shepe, then the Shepeher - des repented them of their rashe graunt, and foly committed:
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[131] MS.: "And this in our felyng our foly is cause of our wekenes."
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Till by his foly one did fall, that all the rest did spill.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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The abused louer seeth his foly, and entendeth to trust no more.
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For what other thynge is the deathe of the soule, then foly and wickednes.
The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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Were nat this foly: sholde nat haue lost his syght
The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489
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Leue of this thy foly, and holde thy selfe content
The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489
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