verisimilar
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Thus the fancy takes the place of the verisimilar of certain students of Aristotle.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
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 Archibald Henderson
And there the effect is not only verisimilar but wonderful in its verisimilitude.
From The English Novel by George Saintsbury
But the ridiculous must no longer come forward as the pure creation of his own fancy, but must be verisimilar, that is, seem to be real.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
But our poet hath not so much art left him as to frame any thing agreeable, or verisimilar, to amuse the people, or wherewith to deceive them.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
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