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n.
Folly; trifling.
n.
Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest.
v. t.
To restore from folly, or from being a fool.
n.
Want of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; folly; simplicity; ignorance.
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Foolish talk; nonsense; folly.
v. t.
A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
a.
A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
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Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly.
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Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.
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Weakness of intellect; silliness; folly.
v. t.
To exceed in folly.
n.
Folly.
a.
Highest; greatest; most excellent or most extreme; utmost; greatist possible (sometimes in a bad sense); as, supreme love; supreme glory; supreme magnanimity; supreme folly.
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The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.
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Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.
pron., a., & adv.
Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!
v. i.
Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
v. t.
To make foolish; to affect with folly; to weaken the intellectual powers of, or to deprive of sound judgment.
prep.
Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly.
n.
Want of intelligence; stupidity; folly.
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