vraisemblance

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The value of the unities does not depend either upon their traditional authority or—to use the French expression—upon their vraisemblance.

From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton

There are ties with the doctrines of 1641 even in this preface, but the transformation of vraisemblance and decorum was sufficiently advanced for the needs of the day.

From Prefaces to Fiction by Warburton, William

This is quite aside from its remarkable range of character-portrayal, its humor, pathos and vraisemblance, its feeling for situation, its sonorous eloquence in massed effects.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard

Following two or three recalls, a large sheaf of roses had been passed over the footlights; for a close imitation of professional procedure was held to give the advantage of strict vraisemblance.

From Bertram Cope's Year by Fuller, Henry Blake

His Chinese letters—for the idea of which he was indebted to the Lettres Persanes of Montesquieu—describe England in his day with the same vraisemblance which we have noticed in The Spectator.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry