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Meanings of ingenuousness in English

Portuguese
naturalidade
Catalan
naturalitat
Spanish
inocencia

The quality of innocent naivete.

        naturalidade
        Catalan
        ingenuïtat
        Spanish
        ingenuidad

        Openly straightforward or frank.

              ingenuïtat
              Usage of ingenuousness in English
              1
              Her mind is rich in all the graces of ingenuousness and modesty.
              Jane Talbot
              2
              The substance of the remaining speeches I have given with perfect ingenuousness.
              Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
              3
              His smooth, bronzed boyish face showed ingenuousness and candour in every line.
              The Grell Mystery
              4
              The ingenuousness of youth had insisted on this prolongation of our meeting.
              Simon the Jester
              5
              I could not help smiling at the ingenuousness of the captain's reasoning.
              Humphrey Bold: A Story of the Times of Benbow
              6
              The praise thou givest to her ingenuousness, is another of thy peculiars.
              Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
              7
              I cannot say with as much ingenuousness and freshness of invention, however.
              A Second Book of Operas
              8
              Was it natural ingenuousness, or did the girl have a deeper motive?
              One Man in His Time
              9
              There is an ingenuousness, an honourable frankness about him, that I love.
              Tales and Novels — Volume 05 / Tales of a Fashionable Life
              10
              I found that, with a woman's intelligence, she had a child's ingenuousness.
              An Enemy to the King / From the Recently Discovered Memoirs of t...
              11
              He gets by on a class of quiet vulnerability and wide-eyed ingenuousness.
              The Irish Times
              12
              The whole fountain has an ingenuousness that is in key with the subject.
              The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts an...
              13
              An ingenuousness, undeformed by bad training, increased the charm of his natural beauty.
              Napoleon and Blücher: An Historical Novel
              14
              With unreflecting ingenuousness he tasted the joy as if it were his right.
              Born in Exile
              15
              And then he said with deliberate ingenuousness: I am so content.
              The Lion's Share
              16
              His ingenuousness of confession astonished everybody, and moved the hearts of his judges.
              Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Refor...
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