vraisemblance
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of vraisemblance
French, from vrai true + semblance
Example Sentences
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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
What I like about this story of St. Kevin are the dates—they give it such an unimpeachable vraisemblance!
From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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
Between the preacher and the pews there is certainly neither affinity nor vraisemblance.
From Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities by Jeans, J. Stephen (James Stephen)
There are ties with the doctrines of 1641 even in this preface, but the transformation of vraisemblance and decorum was sufficiently advanced for the needs of the day.
From Prefaces to Fiction by Warburton, William
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