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Ingenui vs Ingenu - What's the difference?

ingenui | ingenu |

As nouns the difference between ingenui and ingenu

is that ingenui is (legal) in civil law, a class of freemen who were born free they were distinguished from the class known as liberti'' or ''libertini who, born slaves, had afterwards legally obtained their freedom while ingenu is (rare) an innocent, unsophisticated, , wholesome boy or young man.

ingenui

English

Noun

(head)
  • (legal) In civil law, a class of freemen who were born free. They were distinguished from the class known as liberti'' or ''libertini who, born slaves, had afterwards legally obtained their freedom.
  • References

    * Bouvier's Law Dictionary , Revised 6th Ed (1856) ----

    ingenu

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Ingenu, ingénu

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) An innocent, unsophisticated, , wholesome boy or young man.
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , title=The Conte Philosphique'' Evolves Its ''Solitaire , magazine=PMLA , volume=61 , issue=3 , month=September , year=1946 , page=752 , pageurl=http://www.jstor.org/stable/459245 , first=Dorothy M. , last=McGhee }}
    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 ."
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  • , title=Swift's Tale of a Tub : An Essay in Problems of Structure , first=Robert C. , last=Elliott , magazine=PMLA , volume=66 , issue=4 , month=June , year=1951 , page=44 , pageurl=http://www.jstor.org/stable/459486 }}
    Swift, it might be noted, has used this technique, but with "reverse English." Instead of a fine central intelligence, he has set up at the core of his work his favorite ingénu , an "I" who egregiously identifies himself with the very abuses that Swift is attacking.
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , title="Rasselas" and "The Vanity of Human Wishes" , first=John M. , last=Aden , magazine=Criticism , volume=3 , issue=4 , month=Fall , year=1961 , page=300 , pageurl=http://www.jstor.org/stable/23090975 }}
  • *:The trouble still lies, as it did in the Happy Valley, in the mental ineptitude and moral weakness of the characters. This is the target throughout the story, as mere ingénu and mere academic split time after time on the rock of reality.
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  • , title= , last=Bellow , first=Saul , authorlink=Saul Bellow , year=1975 , page=?? , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=r0bFQu7Y6SIC&lpg=PA18&dq=ingenu%20bellow&pg=PA18
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    You seem pleasant and harmless with your dark ingenu eyes and your nice Midwestern manners.
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  • , magazine=Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review , volume=64 , issue=254 , year=1975 , month=Summer , page=201 , last=Lee , first=A. Robert , title=review of Joseph Gold Charles Dickens: Radical Moralist , pageurl=http://www.jstor.org/stable/30089914 }}
    And ... he examines ingénus like Oliver Twist and David Copperfield whose lives Dickens renders as patterns of self-growth towards moral health.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , title=Satire: Spirit and Air , first=George Austin , last=Test , year=1991 , publisher=University Press of Florida , page=205 , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=QkhMi6mKmUMC&lpg=PA205&dq=ingenu&pg=PA205
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    The innocent childlike nature of the Ingenu' is perhaps his most obvious and charming characteristic and has been much noted. ... But actual children are rare among the ' Ingenus ....
  • * {{quote-book
  • , title=Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain (1952-2002): A Commemorative Volume , year=2003 , editors=Ignacio Miguel Palacios Martínez, María José López Couso, Patricia Fra López, Elena Seoane Posse , author=Juan Francisco Elices Agudo , chapter=The Role of the Ingenu'' in the Construction of a Postcolonial Anti-War Satire: Ken Saro-Wiwa's ''Sozaboy , page=565 , publisher=Universidade de Santiago de Compostela , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=l-i0ByeHNAQC&lpg=PA565&dq=ingenu&pg=PA565
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    For his novel, Saro-Wiwa draws on the figure of the ingenu in order to satirise the evils and pettiness of war from an apparently naïve perspective, which conceals the biting criticism that prevails throughout the narration.

    Antonyms

    * homme fatale