ingenuous

• An ingenuous, affectionate, susceptible heart is seldom favourable to the happiness of the possessor. —  Beaux and Belles of England
• He was delightfully ingenuous, and laughed heartily at jests at his own expense, frankly admitting his own blunders. —  Honoré de Balzac
• The child Pansie, frisking with her kitten —a more simple, ingenuous, and self-centred, but also less sympathetic nature than the Pearl of Hester Prynne—may have been studied from Hawthorne's daughter Rose. —  The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Pure and ingenuous, they were committed to pray as much as possible, especially the Rosary, and they did all they could to offer every sacrifice, little or great, to make amends to God for the offenses committed against Him, and to convert sinners and, thus, save their souls from hell. —  Latest Articles
• David, no doubt, would at any time have confessed that he was a sinner, but mark how heavy the wrath of God was on him for all that, because he came not to a plain, ingenuous, and humble acknowledgment of his particular sins. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

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