verisimilar
Example Sentences
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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
The writer's cunning is shown by the fact that he does not stop abruptly: but finishes off with some subsequent and quite verisimilar experiences of the Dutch ship.
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)
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
And there the effect is not only verisimilar but wonderful in its verisimilitude.
From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George
