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ingeniosity Now Obs. or rare.|ɪndʒiːnɪˈɒsɪtɪ|
[a. F. ingéniosité ‘ingeniositie, ingeniousnesse’ Cotgr. (16th c. in Godef. Compl.), f. L. type *ingeniōsitās, f. ingeniōs-us: see next and -ity.]
The quality of being ingenious; ingenuity.
1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 47 Luciane and Juliane, whose very image[s] are to be had in hie repute, for their ingeniosity. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. iv. (1682) 110 Besides their own natural ingeniosities they have since learned the Civilities and Arts of Europe. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 681 Nature..whose cunning and ingeniosity no art or human opificer can possibly reach to by imitation. 1891Sat. Rev. 8 Aug. 164/2 The distortion of proverbs. Balzac's painters, Schinner and Joseph Bridau, quite gave themselves up to this ingeniosity, for it grows upon one. |