idiotry
nounEtymology From idiot + -ry.
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Obsolete Idiocy
- But ſo great vvas his love of ſacred amity at the ſame time, that he ſays, I ſtill keep up any correſpondence vvith him, notvvithſtanding his Idiotry, for it is my principle to be contſant in my friendſhips— […]1752, William Warburton, “Epistle to Dr. [John] Arbuthnot, Being the Prologue to the Satires”, in Alexander Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope Esq., volume IV, London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton […], →OCLC, footnote, page 22: