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Ingenu

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An innocent, unsophisticated, naive, wholesome boy or young man. rare

    "Even a casual reader of the philosophic tale will have met, in the array of types on parade-an oft-repeated "naïf" (who was anything but naive), at least one famed "candide," and several "ingénus.""

Etymology

Borrowed from French ingénu (“guileless”), especially as used by Voltaire in L'Ingénu, from Latin ingenuus (“ingenuous”). Doublet of ingenuous.

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