Ingenuously vs Plainly - What's the difference?
ingenuously | plainly | Related terms |
In an ingenuous manner; frankly, straightforwardly.
*, II.12:
*:Let us ingenuously confesse that only God and Faith hath told it us: for it is no lesson of Nature, nor comming from our reason.
*1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury , V:
*:I must ingenuously ackowledge the chief Motive of my leaving her was the Present of a New-Year's''-Gift she made me; but whether ''French'' or ''Neopolitan'', I leave to the Determination of the Sons of ''Galen .
In a plain manner; simply; basically.
Obviously; clearly.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}