verisimilar
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But formerly, and especially by the theoreticians, by verisimilar was understood historical credibility, or that historical truth which is not demonstrable, but conjecturable, not true, but verisimilar.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
If "verisimilar" be translated by "coherent," a most exact meaning will often be found in the discussions, examples, and judgments of the critics.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
"I have not," he says, "so much art left me to make any thing agreeable, or verisimilar, wherewith to amuse or deceive the people."
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
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 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
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