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Ingenuous   /ɪndʒˈɛnjuəs/   Listen
adjective
Ingenuous  adj.  
1.
Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
2.
Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal. "If an ingenuous detestation of falsehood be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuine method to obviate dishonesty."
3.
Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc. "Sensible in myself... what a burden it is for me, who would be ingenuous, to be loaded with courtesies which he hath not the least hope to requite or deserve."
4.
Ingenious. (Obs.) Note: (Formerly) printers did not discriminate between... ingenuous and ingenious, and these words were used or rather printed interchangeably almost to the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Synonyms: Open; frank; unreserved; artless; plain; sincere; candid; fair; noble; generous. Ingenuous, Open, Frank. One who is open speaks out at once what is uppermost in his mind; one who is frank does it from a natural boldness, or dislike of self-restraint; one who is ingenuous is actuated by a native simplicity and artlessness, which make him willing to confess faults, and make known his sentiments without reserve. See Candid.





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"Ingenuous" Quotes from Famous Books



... Smoky's face during the preceding five minutes had been worth studying. He was quite sure that the old man was lying, and upon his ingenuous countenance such knowledge, illuminated by admiration and amazement, was ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... Nothing of the sort, sir. I asked you down to meet a sweet and unsullied girl—the sweetest, most innocent and ingenuous girl in the world. ...
— The Human Drift • Jack London
... several years before, he had made his home in or about the city. He was without near relatives, but had quite a number of connections whose social standing was such that there were few doors he could not find keys to, or a password that was the equivalent. His own frank, ingenuous nature made him quite as many friends as his social and diplomatic connections; so that despite the fact of a not enormous income, and that he meant to belong to the professions some day, and that he was by no means a youth on matrimony bent—with all these drawbacks he was welcomed ...
— The Bondwoman • Marah Ellis Ryan
... His ingenuous expression exasperated Burnham. The man lost control of his temper at the same moment that he acknowledged to himself his defeat. ...
— The Fortune Hunter • Louis Joseph Vance
... indeed to select from them such a collated edition as might in any degree suit the taste of 'these more light and giddy-paced times.'" Notes on some others of the ballads say that "a few conjectural emendations have been found necessary," but no one of these remarks would seem really ingenuous in a modern scholar when we consider how far the "conjectural emendations" extended. Moreover, changes were often made without the slightest clue in introduction ...
— Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature • Margaret Ball


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