verisimilar

Example Sentences

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Aesthetic truths for Baumgarten were those which did not seem altogether false or altogether true: in fact, the verisimilar.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

Who does not recall the great part played in literary history by the criticism of the verisimilar?

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

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 Croce, Benedetto

And there the effect is not only verisimilar but wonderful in its verisimilitude.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

The origin of the primitive inhabitants of the West Indian Archipelago has been the subject of much learned controversy, ending, like all such discussions, in different theories and more or less verisimilar conjecture.

From The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation by Van Middeldyk, R. A. (Rudolph Adams)