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English
Etymology
From ingenuous + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
ingenuously (comparative more ingenuously, superlative most ingenuously)
- In an ingenuous manner; frankly, straightforwardly.
c. 1620s, Elizabeth Cary [misattributed to Henry Cary], The History Of the most unfortunate Prince King Edward II. , London: A.G. and F. P., published 1680, page 41:Yet this in Duty and Modesty I may ingenuously confess, My Royal Husband is oto far seduced, his Ear is too open, his Will too violent, and his Heart too free, to those bewitching Syrens, that make his Errors their Profit and Glory.
1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section V:I must ingenuously acknowledge the chief Motive of my leaving her was the Present of a New-Year's-Gift she made me; but whether French or Neopolitan, I leave to the Determination of the Sons of Galen.