ingenuously, adv.
Etymology: < ingenuous adj. + -ly suffix2.
1. In an ingenuous manner; honestly, straightforwardly, openly, frankly, candidly; without dissimulation or reserve.
1611 M. Smith in Bible
(King James)
Transl. Pref. 5
Sixtus..and Alphonsus..doe ingenuously confesse as much.
1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor
(rev. ed.)
iv. v, in Wks. I. 51
Tell me, ingenuously, dost thou affect my sister Bridget, as thou pretend'st?
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. ii. § 11
Joseph Scaliger plainly gives out, and ingenuously professeth his ignorance.
1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 47
He ingenuously sent them to him in his own handwriting.
1884 Manch. Examiner 15 Feb. 5/4
He entered upon a rash enterprise, and conducted it not altogether ingenuously.
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†2. With the education or culture befitting an honourable station; in the liberal arts; liberally.
1670 R. Coke Disc. Trade 74
The Female Sex..are less bred ingenuously in England, than in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and the United Netherlands.
1673 Ess. Educ. Gentlew. 4
Were a competent number of Schools erected to Educate Ladyes ingenuously, methinks I see how asham'd Men would be of their Ignorance.
1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 14
Those that are most ingenuously educated in Arts and Letters.
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