fatuity

• It was so easy not to stay away In this second edition of Van Twiller's fatuity, his case was even worse than before. —  Mademoiselle Olympe Zabriski
• But for this fatuity, there would probably have been no such feeling of vindictiveness at the North as soon developed there; certainly there would have been no excuse for such severity as was afterwards exhibited. —  American Men of Action
• In extreme youth there is much inconstancy; in the rich there is pride; in the arrogant, vanity; in men who value themselves on their beauty, there is disdain; and in one who unites all these in himself, there is a fatuity which is the mother of all mischief As for thee, boy, who thinkest to carry off so safely a prize more due to my earnest love than to thy idle philandering, why dost thou not rise from that flowery bank, and tear from my bosom the life which so abhors thine? —  The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes
• And he on his part bore the eccentricities of the elf with matchless patience, for he loved her, as I said, to fatuity--doted on her with a passion that increased with ripening years, and of late consumed him like a fever And then there was her mother, last named because, whatever she should have been, she really was the least important of Jacquelina's teachers. —  The Missing Bride
• Yes; I am ready to pay the price of my fatuity--but not until they had paid me for their victory--and dearly. —  Red Masquerade

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