verisimilar
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Various anecdotes of him are related by Boccaccio, Sacchetti, and others, none of them verisimilar, and some of them at least fifteen centuries old when revamped.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
Now, I am to perform all this, it seems, without making any thing verisimilar or agreeable!
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
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
Extravagant as are the situations in La Nuit et le Moment, the other best thing, they are, but for the longueurs already censured, singularly verisimilar on their own postulates.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
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
