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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  • She explicitly denies that her governess ever advised her to marry the admiral without the consent of the council; but relates with great apparent ingenuousness, the hints which Mrs. Ashley had thrown out of his attachment to her, and the artful attempts which she had made to discover how her pupil stood affected towards such a connexion The letter concludes with the following wise and spirited assertion of herself. —  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
  • Far from being a bad quality, this ingenuousness is wholesome because it reflects warm appreciation of what has been given him. —  The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2
  • The ingenuousness, the naïve quality that made dear the art of the Fatherland, has disappeared. —  Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques
  • And it might not be ingenuousness--or silliness--after all! —  Merely Mary Ann
  • I half expected him to pretend ingenuousness, and spring the tale of Dierdre's adventure with Herter on the company. —  Everyman's Land
 

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