unfool

English

Etymology

un- +‎ fool

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈfuːl/

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Verb

unfool (third-person singular simple present unfools, present participle unfooling, simple past and past participle unfooled)

1. (transitive) To restore from folly, or from being a fool.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     haue you any
     way then to vnfoole me againe. Set downe the basket

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unfool”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)