Ingenuous
a.-
Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble;
as, .ingenuous blood of birth -
Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded;
as, an .ingenuous ardor or zeal -
Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank;
as, an ingenuous man; aningenuous declaration, confession, etc. - Ingenious.
(Formerly) printers did not discriminate between . . . ingenuous and ingenious, and these words were used or rather printed interchangeably almost to the beginning of the eighteenth century.
