vraisemblance
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of vraisemblance
French, from vrai true + semblance
Example Sentences
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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
In 'Erema,' the narrative suffers for want of vraisemblance, and loses by being related by a very young girl who has had no opportunity of becoming familiar with the world she describes.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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 Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
In physique, too, there was a considerable vraisemblance.
From Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans
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
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