English

Adverb

ingenuously ‎(comparative more ingenuously, superlative most ingenuously)

1. In an ingenuous manner; frankly, straightforwardly.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:

     Let us ingenuously confesse that only God and Faith hath told it us: for it is no lesson of Nature, nor comming from our reason.

   • 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, V:

     I must ingenuously ackowledge the chief Motive of my leaving her was the Present of a New-Year's-Gift she made me; but whether French or Neopolitan, I leave to the Determination of the Sons of Galen.