Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The appearance of truth; verisimilitude.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The appearance of truth; verisimilitude.
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Examples
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This vraisemblance, which is so seldom witnessed in the opera, seemed to strike every eye.
Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg
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I mean that probability or vraisemblance which is so highly esteemed, but which the commonest workers are able to substitute for the true.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892
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I mean that probability or vraisemblance which is so highly esteemed, but which the commonest workers are able to substitute for the true.
The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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I mean that probability or vraisemblance which is so highly esteemed, but which the commonest workers are able to substitute for the true.
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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Can distinctly recollect heated correspondence in Time and Tide regarding vraisemblance or otherwise of Jamaica children, and now range myself, decidedly and forever, on the side of the author.
A Different Stripe: 2008
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Can distinctly recollect heated correspondence in Time and Tide regarding vraisemblance or otherwise of Jamaica children, and now range myself, decidedly and forever, on the side of the author.
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Google's Brave New World gained extra acreage and more vraisemblance Monday with the release of the latest upgrades to its mapping tools.
Faces Of The Week: June 12-16, 2006Forbes Faces Of The Week: June 12-16, 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006
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Google's Brave New World gained extra acreage and more vraisemblance Monday with the release of the latest upgrades to its mapping tools.
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In the most improbable fiction, the reader still desires some air of vraisemblance, and does not relish that the incidents of a tale familiar to him should be altered to suit the taste of critics, or the caprice of the Author himself.
Waverley 2004
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In its literary form this is analogous to the realism effect, the technique of vraisemblance: it is the irrelevance of certain items in a story to its narrative that communicates the effect of the real: why would they be described at all if they were not "true"?
Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History 2002
qms commented on the word vraisemblance
In Cleveland they'll mime nonchalance
For cocksureness' vraisemblance.
Despite a brave show
At heart they must know
The exercise is a totentanz.
July 8, 2016