vraisemblance

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Persons and scenes are brought into juxtaposition, in a manner to violate every principle of vraisemblance.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

His reply was: "I was just fourteen, and I played the soubrette characters in an amateur company—a line that I could hardly assume with any degree of vraisemblance now."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various

Mr. Hale's historical scholarship and his exact habit of mind have aided him in the art of giving vraisemblance to absurdities.

From Brief History of English and American Literature by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

In 'Erema,' the narrative suffers for want of vraisemblance, and loses by being related by a very young girl who has had no opportunity of becoming familiar with the world she describes.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

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