verisimilar
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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 Benedetto Croce
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
But our poet hath not so much art left him as to frame any thing agreeable, or verisimilar, to amuse the people, or wherewith to deceive them.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
Thus the fancy takes the place of the verisimilar of certain students of Aristotle.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
Are these dramas of his not verisimilar only, but true; nay, truer than reality itself, since the essence of unmixed reality is bodied forth in them under more expressive symbols?
From English literary criticism by Various
