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ingeny

ingeny noun: natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity.

Noun

ingeny

  1. (obsolete) natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity
    • it [God's mercy] chose me suitable company and habitation; it gave me betimes a teachable ingeny1683, Richard Baxter, Dying Thoughts

Forms of ingeny

alternative formingenie

Origin of ingeny

From Latin ingenium. See ingenious.

Questions about ingeny

What does ingeny mean?
Ingeny means natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity.
What part of speech is ingeny?
Ingeny is a noun.

Words near ingeny in the dictionary

  1. ingenuous
  2. ingenuously
  3. ingenuousness
  4. ingenuousnesses
  5. ingenus
  6. ingeny
  7. Inger
  8. Ingerland
  9. Ingerman
  10. ingerminate
  11. ingerminated

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