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English
Etymology
From dis- + ingenuity.
Noun
disingenuity (countable and uncountable, plural disingenuities)
- Synonym of disingenuousness
1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “Book IV”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. , volume I, part II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC, page 340:[…] it was only his Obſervation of the Diſingenuity, and want of Integrity in this Parliament, which leſſened that Reverence to it, […]
1819, James Gregory, Letters from Dr. James Gregory of Edinburgh: In Defence of His Essay on the Difference of the Relation Between Motive and Action and that of Cause and Effect in Physics, with Replies, by Alex. Crombie, page 289:For example; Do you seriously believe, and mean to assert, that it is impossible for any person, even for a philosopher, to be guilty of disingenuity and falsehood, by professing to believe a sophism which he really did not […]?
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