2. Verb. (third-person singular of fool) ¹
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Definition of Fools
1. fool [v] - See also: fool
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fools
Literary usage of Fools
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841)
"There are fools all for saving, and fools that all spend, And great fools that
borrow and greater that lend— fools that rush into crime to accumulate wealth ..."
2. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"Enquiry is made for the Persons concerned in that inhuman Action, which is Felony
by the Law. An Essay on fools. AJ, June 12.—Sir, There is a strange, ..."
3. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1903)
"fools are known by looking wise, As men tell woodcocks by their eyes. ...
fools are fain of right nought.—Ferg. A little thing pleaseth a fule.—Max. Yo. ..."
4. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"fantastical fools from the town! A good riddance, for my part, I say, of her!
Should she stay where she dwells, and retain this her mind, who could live ..."
5. Readings in European History: A Collection of Extracts from the Sources by James Harvey Robinson (1906)
"It describes in lively German verse the various kinds of fools that were got
together to be ... Brant's "fools," who are generally of the vicious variety, ..."
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