Etymology

ingenuously

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Today it means: In an ingenuous manner; frankly, straightforwardly. Full definition →

English ingenuous ← Latin ingenuu
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The story

  1. Latiningenuu
  2. Englishingenuous
  3. English todayingenuously

From ingenuous + -ly.

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