Both Uses of
ingenuity
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Our earthly fire also consumes more or less rapidly according as the object which it attacks is more or less combustible, so that human ingenuity has even succeeded in inventing chemical preparations to check or frustrate its action.†
Chpt 3
- But it was to the mortification of touch he brought the most assiduous ingenuity of inventiveness.†
Chpt 4 *
Definition:
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(ingenuity) the ability to solve problems in smart creative ways