vraisemblance

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By-the-way," he said, "let me say parenthetically that I think our foreign trips will have a far greater vraisemblance if we heighten the illusion with a few photographs, don't you?

From The Water Ghost and Others by Bangs, John Kendrick

Persons and scenes are brought into juxtaposition, in a manner to violate every principle of vraisemblance.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

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

Well, that image walked quietly upon the stage, so perfect in make-up that you longed for some error to break the terrible vraisemblance.

From Castilian Days by Hay, John

Mr. Radcliffe and Horace Walpole are relegated to the land of dreams and shadows; give us vraisemblance to whet our blunted susceptibilities.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie