Sense file
How the sense moved
The archive follows the dated record first, then reads the social or rhetorical pressure that hardened, softened, narrowed, or reversed the word.
Older meaning
Blessed, innocent, harmless.
Modern meaning
Foolish.
Research lens
A revealing softening path where blessed innocence and vulnerability eventually relax into light foolishness.
Meaning trail
Root
happy or blessed
The emotional floor started high.
Middle path
innocent or pitiable
Tenderness blurred into weakness.
Now
foolish
Weakness became mockable.