fictive

If it can be made so much like a work of fiction that the subject sketched serves the purposes of a fictive hero, why then—maybe.

She made even the true seem fictive, while Miriam's effort was to make the fictive true.

Its grossness must be transposed, as it were, to a fictive scale, a scale of fainter tints and generalized signs.

Who knew of Ram-tah's fictive origin, or even of Ram-tah at all?

Lyon hoped for a letter recounting the fictive sequel; but apparently his brilliant sitter did not operate with the pen.

I was for the time entirely the historian, with little time to dream of the fictive material with which my memory was filled.

Falstaff ceases to be a fictive creation, or the mere dramatic representation of a type, and takes on a distinctive individuality.

In the first poem of the book, using the fictive 'he' as its subject, she indicates her attitude to that region beyond sense.

Vanity is the fictive bond which links us to an imaginary exterior world.