vraisemblance
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The decoration becomes perfected and sterile; then p. 284there arises a more sophisticated generation, longing for naturalism, for pictorial vraisemblance, without the childishness of the cave pictures.
From Masques & Phases by Robert Ross
The story is full of that indescribable half-naturalness, that effortless vraisemblance, which is so commonly a charm of German writers, and so seldom paralleled in English.
From First Fam'lies of the Sierras by Joaquin Miller
Everything that happens in an imaginary realm—in the realm of Ruritania, for illustration—has an air of possibility, at least a shadowy vraisemblance.
From Ponkapog Papers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
He was, indeed, a master of the spoken word, and possessed a miraculous power of giving to the wildest fancies an air of vraisemblance.
From The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck
The cautious march of undeviating truth, and a careful regard to vraisemblance, have never entered into their plan.
From Bagh O Bahar, or Tales of the Four Darweshes by Duncan Forbes
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