Meaning of natural fool | Babel Free

Definitions

One whose foolishness is not a pretend performance, but rather often stemming from intellectual disability.

archaic

Examples

“But infants, natural fools, mad-men in their fits, are neither fit to consent, nor to be members in the Christian visible Church, […]”

“[…]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.”

“To begin⟳ with he resembles the candidate rather closely, for while an idiot or natural fool cannot vote⟳, the vote⟳ of a lunatic given during a lucid interval is good.”

“Since it was common to laugh⟳ at the naiveté and difficulties of such persons, the social sense⟳ of the fool was extended to include⟳ actors, comedians, and jesters, who imitated the ridiculous behavior of the natural fool. We continue⟳ to laugh⟳ at the type⟳ today.”

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