Definition for IN-GEN'U-OUS-NESS

IN-GEN'U-OUS-NESS, n.

  1. Openness of heart; frankness; fairness; freedom from reserve or dissimulation; as, to confess our faults with ingenuousness.
  2. Fairness; candidness; as, the ingenuousness of a confession.

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