verisimilar

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Various anecdotes of him are related by Boccaccio, Sacchetti, and others, none of them verisimilar, and some of them at least fifteen centuries old when revamped.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

Charming, but in no proper sense of the word natural or verisimilar.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

His polemic against the French school is chiefly directed to claiming a place in poetry for the verisimilar, as against absolute historical exactitude.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

Thus the fancy takes the place of the verisimilar of certain students of Aristotle.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

Extravagant as are the situations in La Nuit et le Moment, the other best thing, they are, but for the longueurs already censured, singularly verisimilar on their own postulates.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George