Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-GEN'I-OUS
IN-GEN'ER-A-TINGIN-GE'NI-OUS-LY
IN-GEN'I-OUS, a. [L. ingenuus.]
- Open; frank; fair; candid; free from reserve, disguise, equivocation or dissimulation; used of persons or things. We speak of an ingenuous mind; an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration or confession.
- Noble; generous; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal; ingenuous detestation of falsehood. – Locke.
- Of honorable extraction; freeborn; as, ingenuous blood or birth.
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