vraisemblance

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Everything that happens in an imaginary realm—in the realm of Ruritania, for illustration—has an air of possibility, at least a shadowy vraisemblance.

From Ponkapog Papers by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

There are ties with the doctrines of 1641 even in this preface, but the transformation of vraisemblance and decorum was sufficiently advanced for the needs of the day.

From Prefaces to Fiction by Warburton, William

The decoration becomes perfected and sterile; then p. 284there arises a more sophisticated generation, longing for naturalism, for pictorial vraisemblance, without the childishness of the cave pictures. 

From Masques & Phases by Ross, Robert

The story is full of that indescribable half-naturalness, that effortless vraisemblance, which is so commonly a charm of German writers, and so seldom paralleled in English.

From First Fam'lies of the Sierras by Miller, Joaquin

And, much as it may lack vraisemblance, either of those suppositions is of course within the bounds of possibility.

From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by Daubney, William Heaford