Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being ingenious; wit; ingenuity; contrivance; ingeniousness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Ingenuity; skill; cunning.
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- noun The quality of being
ingenious ;ingenuity ;skill ;cunning .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A novel, a sf concept or trope seems to be Mr. Roberts motto so no sequels yet, no same universe, all ingeniosity.
Liviu's Top Authors of the 00's Part 1 - SF Liviu 2009
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French tongue (as it comprehendeth some of its brusquest dialects), with so much ingeniosity and wit, that more impressions have been sold thereof in that language than of any other book that hath been set forth at any time within these fifteen hundred years; so difficult nevertheless to be turned into any other speech that many prime spirits in most of the nations of Europe, since the year
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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French tongue (as it comprehendeth some of its brusquest dialects), with so much ingeniosity and wit, that more impressions have been sold thereof in that language than of any other book that hath been set forth at any time within these fifteen hundred years; so difficult nevertheless to be turned into any other speech that many prime spirits in most of the nations of Europe, since the year
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The industry of this composition is owing unto the Indians, as well as of many others, which the ingeniosity of those Barbarians caused them to invent, both for the preservation, and pleasure of their own life.
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The Pentateuch of Rabelais mentioned in the title-page of the first book of this translation being written originally in the French tongue (as it comprehendeth some of its brusquest dialects), with so much ingeniosity and wit, that more impressions have been sold thereof in that language than of any other book that hath been set forth at any time within these fifteen hundred years; so difficult nevertheless to be turned into any other speech that many prime spirits in most of the nations of Europe, since the year
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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a mechanical point of view M. Ader's apparatus was of the greatest interest and real ingeniosity.
A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914
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