ingenuousness

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He owns, therefore, what it would be to no purpose to conceal; and his ingenuousness is a salvo--'Why, this, Madam, is no more than Mr. Lovelace himself acknowledges Well, but what is now to be done?--You must make the best of your situation: and as you say, so he has proposed to you of Windsor, and his canon's house.

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  1. The character of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness; candor. In Petrarch's [sonnets] all ingenuousness is frittered away into ingenuity. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 369.
  2. Same as ingenuity, 2. By his ingenuousness he [the good handicraftsman] leaves his art better than he found it. Fuller, Holy State, ii. 19.

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  • I had to have many conversations with her before I understood her ingenuousness, her ignorance, her thorough goodness, in short, all her simple healthiness of soul. —  Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
  • He owns, therefore, what it would be to no purpose to conceal; and his ingenuousness is a salvo--'Why, this, Madam, is no more than Mr. Lovelace himself acknowledges Well, but what is now to be done?--You must make the best of your situation: and as you say, so he has proposed to you of Windsor, and his canon's house. —  Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3
  • No man so furtive for the time as the ingenuous countryman who finds that his ingenuousness has been abused. —  The Woodlanders
  • He owns, therefore, what it would be to no purpose to conceal; and his ingenuousness is a salvo -- 'Why, this, Madam, is no more than Mr. Lovelace himself acknowledges.' —  Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3
  • 'You use an imaginary helplessness with the brutality of a buccaneer, and your ingenuousness is a pistol you put to one's head, crying: your money or your life.' —  The Explorer
 

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