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 R. A. (Rudolph Adams) Van Middeldyk
In the second place, the actions of tragedy are either really true, that is, historical, or if not true, have all the appearance of truth, that is, they are verisimilar.
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn
But his power as a sociologist is no less real that it is unconscious, indeed infinitely more real and human and verisimilar that it is not polemical.
From Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson
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 Benedetto Croce
If "verisimilar" be translated by "coherent," a most exact meaning will often be found in the discussions, examples, and judgments of the critics.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
