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Ingenuousness

noun
1.
The quality of innocent naivete.  Synonyms: artlessness, innocence, naturalness.
2.
Openly straightforward or frank.





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"Ingenuousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... bellum in every respect so far as her own interests were concerned, and to accept as the entire recompense for all her expenditures of money and blood a benefit accruing to the American States. This was a humorous assumption of the ingenuousness of her most disinterested protestations. The French minister, we are told, "seemed to smile" at this compliment to the unselfishness of his chivalrous nation,[82] and replied that the American States were making no request to England for independence. ...
— Benjamin Franklin • John Torrey Morse, Jr.
... a sort of naive ingenuousness in a letter to the Lords of Council of the year 1607. In this letter he exhorts them not to present to him any 'sute wherof none of yourselves can guess what the vallew may prove,' but rather to help him to cut off superfluous expenses, as far as was ...
— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke
... him. For one thing, his skin was so tender, his eyes so blue and innocent, his mouth so wide and sensitive, his forehead so white and high, that he gave the impression of almost childish simplicity and ingenuousness. For another thing, he dressed with such meticulous regard for the fashion, and he moved about with such indolent amiability, that his clothes and his manners distracted attention from what ...
— Rope • Holworthy Hall


Words linked to "Ingenuousness" :   naiveness, candidness, candor, frankness, disingenuousness, innocency, forthrightness, directness, naivety, artlessness, candour, naivete, ingenuous


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