(UK, Irish) Common sense, initiative, resourcefulness.
When I see a man who has a good business, sufficient to support his family respectably, neglecting his affairs, and running into debt, in order to obtain a political office, I fancy that, whatever may be his talents, he is not burdened w…
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(US) Boldness of enterprise; aggressiveness or initiative.
As a balance to genius, which is ideally creative, gumption is required to control, to direct. Gumption is the power to realize the poetical worth of common sense. Without that power no man was ever truly great.
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(US) Energy of body and mind, enthusiasm.
Whatever the job turned out to be, if it went against her gumptions, she would make sure Gregory would have hell on his hands and make him eager to release her from the deal.
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