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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Fool·er·y n.; pl. Fooleries
 1. The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; foolish behavior; absurdity.
 Folly in fools bears not so strong a note,
 As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote.   --Shak.
 2. An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical.
    That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected.   --Sir W. Raleigh.