Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To restore from folly; make satisfaction to (one) for calling one a fool; take away the reproach of folly from.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To restore from folly, or from being a fool.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To restore from folly, or from being a fool.
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Examples
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Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page, have you any way then to unfool me again?
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Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page, have you any way then to unfool me again?
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Having agreed to our principle, whether as individuals or groups, of being unfooled about our subconscious and automatic selves, who are the best people in a nation constituted like ours, to unfool us the most quickly, to get our attention the most poignantly, and with the least trouble to us and to themselves?
The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak Gerald Stanley Lee 1903
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Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page, have you any way then to unfool me again?
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Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page, have you any way then to unfool me again?
The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare 1590
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_ Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page, have you 100 any way then to unfool me again?
The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590
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T 'unfool whom thou hast fool'd, and set thy pris'ne/sfree?
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