verisimilar

Example Sentences

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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)

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

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

"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 Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Croce, Benedetto

Charming, but in no proper sense of the word natural or verisimilar.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver