Both Uses
ingenuity
in
Great Expectations
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- I was modestly wondering whether my utmost ingenuity would have enabled me to say anything that would have amused him half as much as this imaginary pleasantry, when I was startled by a sudden click in the wall on one side of the chimney, and the ghostly tumbling open of a little wooden flap with "JOHN" upon it.†
p. 313.5ingenuity = ability to solve problems in smart creative ways
- I saw in this that I, too, was tormented by a perversion of ingenuity, even while the prize was reserved for me.†
p. 323.4 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(ingenuity) the ability to solve problems in smart creative ways
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)