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Webster 1913 Edition

Ingenuousness

In-gen′u-ous-ness

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Noun.
1.
The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness.
2.
Ingenuity.
[Obs.]
Fuller.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ingenuousness

INGEN'UOUSNESS

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

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