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ingeniousness|ɪnˈdʒiːnɪəsnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. The quality of being ingenious; cleverness, ingenuity.
1555Eden Decades 253 With great ingeniousnesse & inestimable pacience these nations haue ouercome much greater difficulties. a1661Fuller Worthies (1662) 79 He shewed as little Ingenuity as Ingeniousnesse, who Cavilled at the Map of Grecia for imperfect, because his Fathers house in Athens was not represented therein. 1679Burnet Hist. Ref. I. 326 The Bishops, wondering at the Ingeniousness and diligence of so poor a man. 1836Random Recoll. Ho. Lords viii. 148 The ingeniousness of his arguments. 1885Academy 22 Aug. 119/3 The paper, however, is well worth reading, owing to its perverse ingeniousness.
†2. Used, by confusion, for ingenuousness: see ingenious II. Obs.
1665Boyle Occas. Refl. v. ix. 177 The greater appearance of Ingeniousness, as well as Innocence, there is in the practice I am disapproving, the more dangerous it is. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) II. xiii. vii. 324 The air with which Osman delivered himself, and the seeming ingeniousness..wrought..an effect upon Arnaud. |