vraisemblance

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He knew how his heroes should behave, and in such encounters there was the vraisemblance that added power to his narrative.

From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by Fenn, George Manville

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 Forbes, Duncan

Mr. Radcliffe and Horace Walpole are relegated to the land of dreams and shadows; give us vraisemblance to whet our blunted susceptibilities.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie

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 Miller, Joaquin

His reply was: "I was just fourteen, and I played the soubrette characters in an amateur company—a line that I could hardly assume with any degree of vraisemblance now."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various