Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of verisimilitude; improbability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lack of verisimilitude or likelihood; improbability.
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- noun Lack of
verisimilitude orlikelihood ;improbability .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Of these faults, the worst, perhaps, were classable under the general head of inverisimilitude.
The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889
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After Henry VIII., the events are too well and distinctly known, to be, without plump inverisimilitude, crowded together in one night's exhibition.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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After Henry VIII., the events are too well and distinctly known, to be, without plump inverisimilitude, crowded together in one night’s exhibition.
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
fbharjo commented on the word inverisimilitude
a very improbable state
January 7, 2009