verisimilar
Example Sentences
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And there the effect is not only verisimilar but wonderful in its verisimilitude.
From The English Novel by George Saintsbury
"I have not," he says, "so much art left me to make any thing agreeable, or verisimilar, wherewith to amuse or deceive the people."
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
Who does not recall the great part played in literary history by the criticism of the verisimilar?
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
Sometimes the word "possible" has been used instead of "verisimilar."
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
Charming, but in no proper sense of the word natural or verisimilar.
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
