Ingenuous /(?)/

In·gen·u·ous

Ingenuous

a.
  1. Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
  2. Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
    If an ingenuous detestation of falsehood be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuine method to obviate dishonesty.
  3. Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.
    Sensible in myself . . . what a burden it is for me, who would be ingenuous, to be loaded with courtesies which he hath not the least hope to requite or deserve.
  4. Ingenious. [Obs.]