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.

Noun

(en noun)

An innocent, unsophisticated, , wholesome girl or young woman.

A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.

(rare) An innocent, unsophisticated, , wholesome person.

* {{quote-magazine, title=Acheson, Political Ingenue

, authorlink=Harold L. Ickes , last=Ickes , first=Harold L. , magazine=The New Republic , page=17 , date=11 June 1951 , volume=124 , issue=24 , pageurl=http://www.unz.org/Pub/NewRepublic-1951jun11-00017 }}

Mr. Acheson's failure as Secretary of State ... has been an inability to understand people or to be understood by them.

* {{quote-magazine, title=What Makes Lord Byron Go? Strong Determinations-Public/Private-of Imperial Errancy

, first=Joshua David , last=Gonsalves , magazine=Studies in Romanticism , volume=41 , issue=1, Psychoanalytic , year=2002 , month=Spring , page=40fn , pageurl=http://www.jstor.org/stable/25601543 }}

I cannot resist citing, slightly out of context, another bit of Baudelaire: "Satan s'est fait ingénu''" (Satan has made himself into an ingenue [''Oeuvres Completes 640]).

* {{quote-magazine, title=It's a Cue, the Name

, first=Kevin , last=McFadden , magazine=Poetry , page=417 , volume=188 , issue=5 , pageurl=http://www.jstor.org/stable/20607555 , month=September , year=2006 }}

America why callow ingenue bile?