verisimilar

Example Sentences

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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 Croce, Benedetto

But his power as a sociologist is no less real that it is unconscious, indeed infinitely more real and human and verisimilar that it is not polemical.

From Mark Twain by Henderson, Archibald

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

The origin of the primitive inhabitants of the West Indian Archipelago has been the subject of much learned controversy, ending, like all such discussions, in different theories and more or less verisimilar conjecture.

From The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation by Van Middeldyk, R. A. (Rudolph Adams)

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