natural fool
natural fool noun: one whose foolishness is not a pretend performance, but rather often stemming from intellectual disability.
Noun
natural fool (plural natural fools)
- One whose foolishness is not a pretend performance, but rather often stemming from intellectual disability.
- But infants, natural fools, mad-men in their fits, are neither fit to consent, nor to be members in the Christian visible Church, […]1654, John, Tombs, Anti-Paedobaptism
- […]which is absurd and groundless as to conclude there is no such thing as Reason and Demonstration because a natural fool cannot reach unto it.1658, Heydon, John, 1629-, A new method of Rosie Crucian physick: wherein is shewed the cause; and therewith their experienced medicines for the cure of all diseases […]
Forms of natural fool
| plural | natural fools |
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Questions about natural fool
- What does natural fool mean?
- Natural fool means one whose foolishness is not a pretend performance, but rather often stemming from intellectual disability.
- What part of speech is natural fool?
- Natural fool is a noun.
- What is the plural of natural fool?
- The plural of natural fool is natural fools.
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