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ingenuousness|ɪnˈdʒɛnjuːəsnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. The condition of being free-born; honourableness or gentleness (of birth). rare.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 219 [Burghers in Germany] commonly join to the ingenuousness of their birth the enjoyment of many privileges.
†2. Nobility of disposition; generosity. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Ingenuité, ingenuitie, ingenuousness; noblenesse, franknesse, gallantnesse of humor; an open, honest, franke, or liberall disposition. a1687T. Jacombe in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxxxi. 12 Take heed how you carry yourselves towards him: not only upon ingenuousness, it is base to be unkind to our Guide.
3. Freedom from dissimulation or reserve; straightforwardness, sincerity; openness, frankness, candour.
1611[see sense 2]. 1721Bailey, Ingenuity, Ingenuousness, Freedom, Frankness, Sincerity. 1754Richardson Grandison II. xxix. (1781) 268 My ingenuousness shall make atonement for that error. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho vi, There is something in the ardour and ingenuousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 37 He possessed in the highest degree ingenuousness and the love of truth. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii, He..pours out all his thoughts with the ingenuousness of a schoolboy. 1866Lowell Wks. (1890) II. 256 In Petrarch's [sonnets] all ingenuousness is frittered away into ingenuity.
¶4. Used by confusion for ingeniousness (= ingenuity II). Obs.
1628Sir R. Le Grys tr. Barclay's Argenis 61 The Commonwealth also will flourish with more excellent wits, while Monarchies, as aduerse to ingenuousnesse, will wither. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xix, By his ingenuousness he [a good handicraftsman] leaves his art better than he found it. 1677Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 235 They have not a malicious ingenuousness to prepare themselves without some..chief mover. |