Both Uses
ingenuity
in
The Celestial Railroad
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- Though I plead guilty to some foolish palpitations of the heart during our headlong rush over the causeway here constructed, yet it were unjust to withhold the highest encomiums on the boldness of its original conception and the ingenuity of those who executed it.†
*ingenuity = ability to solve problems in smart creative ways
- Throughout our journey, at every stopping-place, Apollyon had exercised his ingenuity in screwing the most abominable sounds out of the whistle of the steam-engine; but in this closing effort he outdid himself and created an infernal uproar, which, besides disturbing the peaceful inhabitants of Beulah, must have sent its discord even through the celestial gates.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(ingenuity) the ability to solve problems in smart creative ways
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)