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- noun law In
civil law , a class offreemen who were bornfree . They were distinguished from the class known asliberti orlibertini who, born slaves, had afterwards legally obtained their freedom.
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Examples
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Si considerano molto furbi e credono che tutti gli altri siano ingenui.
Global Voices in English » Japan: Reactions to the Japanese tourist rip-off in Italy 2009
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Splendido corto, “una fiaba priva di parole, di ingenui pupazzi in un mondo manipolato, che ironicamente rispecchia la nostra esistenza.”
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“My son Jack, Sir Richard, my son Jack, ingenui vultus puer.”
Westward Ho! 2007
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He is an ingenui vultus puer ingenuique pudoris — Pendennis, how are you?
The Newcomes 2006
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Nigel replied by a reverent bow, and the king, turning to those behind him, said — “Adolescens quidem ingenui vultus ingenuique pudoris.”
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Those who were born of parents who had been always free, were called _ingenui_.
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway
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He makes a point of acknowledging his obligations to other writers (praef. 21, 'in his voluminibus auctorum nomina praetexui, est enim benignum ... et plenum ingenui pudoris fateri per quos profeceris'); cf. the lists of authorities, Roman and foreign, prefixed to the work.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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We find a division of social ranks which reminds us of the threefold gradation of Lower Germany (edelings, frilings, lazzen-eorls, ceorls, laets), and not of the twofold Frankish one (_ingenui Franci, Romani_), nor of the minute differentiation of the Upper Germans and Lombards.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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The corruption of _ingenui_ to _ingenium_ (or rather, _ingeniU_) is simple enough; and the interchange of _pectus_ and _corpus_ is a common error.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Verily he seemed ingenui vultus puer ingenuique pudoris.
The Botathen Ghost 1921
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