I. The condition of a free-born man or gentleman, good birth: “ornamenta ingenuitatis,” Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 44, § 113: “assertus in ingenuitatem,” Suet. Aug. 74; Tac. Or. 32.—
II. Trop., a mode of thinking worthy of a freeman, noble-mindedness,frankness, ingenuousness, noble demeanor: “prae se probitatem quandam et ingenuitatem ferre,” Cic. Ac. 1, 9, 33; Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 66: “praestare ingenuitatem et ruborem,” Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242.