The submission here spoken of in the text is not a stupid indolence, or insensibility under such calamities as God shall be pleased to bring upon us.—South, Sermons, 1744, vol. x. p. 97.
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We are now pretty well agreed in our use of these words; but there was a time when the uttermost confusion reigned amongst them. Thus, in the first and second quotations which follow, ‘ingenious’ is used where we should now use, and where oftentimes the writers of that time would have used, ‘ingenuous,’ and the converse in the third; while in like manner ‘ingenuity’ in each of the succeeding three quotations stands for our present ‘ingenuousness,’ and ‘ingenuousness’ in the last for ‘ingenuity.’ In respect of ‘ingenious’ and ‘ingenuous,’ the arrangement at which we have now arrived regarding their several meanings, namely that the first indicates mental, the second moral qualities, is good; ‘ingenious’ being from ‘ingenium’ and ‘ingenuous’ from ‘ingenuus.’ But ‘ingenuity,’ being from ‘ingenuous,’ should have kept the meaning, which it has now quite let go, of innate nobleness of disposition; while ‘ingeniousness,’ against which there can be no objection to which ‘ingenuousness’ is not equally exposed, might have expressed what ‘ingenuity’ does now.
Now as an ingenious debtor desires his freedom at his creditor’s hands, that thereby he may be capable of paying his debt, as well as to escape the misery which himself should endure by his imprisonment; so an ingenious soul (and such is every saint) deprecates hell, as well with an eye to God’s glory as to his own ease and happiness.—Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, part ii. c. 54, § 2.
Here let us breathe and haply institute
A course of learning and ingenious studies.
Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, act i. sc. 1.
An ingenious person will rather wear a plain garment of his own than a rich livery, the mark of servitude.—Bates, Spiritual Perfection, Preface.
Thou art true and honest; ingeniously I speak;
No blame belongs to thee.