verisimilar

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Sometimes the word "possible" has been used instead of "verisimilar."

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

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

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

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver