Definition for IN-GEN'I-OUS

IN-GEN'I-OUS, a. [L. ingenuus.]

  1. 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.
  2. Noble; generous; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal; ingenuous detestation of falsehood. – Locke.
  3. Of honorable extraction; freeborn; as, ingenuous blood or birth.

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