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  • 71ingenuous — [in jen′yo͞o əs] adj. [L ingenuus, native, inborn, freeborn, noble, frank < ingignere, to engender < in , in + gignere, to produce: see GENUS] 1. Obs. of noble birth or nature 2. frank; open; candid 3. simple; artless; naive; without guile… …

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  • 72ingenuous — adj. 1 innocent; artless. 2 open; frank. Derivatives: ingenuously adv. ingenuousness n. Etymology: L ingenuus free born, frank (as IN (2), root of gignere beget) …

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  • 73country cousin — noun : a country visitor ingenuously unfamiliar with city ways and sights …

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  • 74half-ingenuous — adj.; half ingenuously, adv.; half ingenuousness, n …

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  • 75RACE, THEORY OF — In the 18th century the founding fathers of anthropology almost all believed that the human races differed in innate intelligence, or even in virtue. Obviously the idea of such racial differences is far older than the first attempts at their… …

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