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‖ vraisemblable, a. (n.)|vrɛsɑ̃blɑbl|
[Fr., f. vrai true + semblable like.]
Believable, likely, plausible. Also absol. as n. (esp. collect.).
1830New Monthly Mag. XXX. 5/1 How far all this is fact, we have no means of ascertaining, but the vraisemblable is well preserved, and if not true..is bien trouve. 1841Geo. Eliot Let. 13 Nov. (1954) I. 121, I was amused with your sharp remarks on the advertisement... I immediately perceived them to be vraisemblable. 1876J. D. Hooker Let. 17 Aug. in L. Huxley Life & Lett. J. D. Hooker (1918) II. xlv. 366 The whole of the vraisemblable of the latter falls before the Darwinian Gospel. 1898Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Let. 23 Feb. in G. S. Layard Mrs. Lynn Linton (1901) xvii. 228, I have had your sketch... Cleverly done..not very vraisemblable in the man's character. 1957D. Piper Eng. Face ii. 37 The portrait that Sittow painted of Henry VII..is completely vraisemblable. 1969Listener 24 July 99/1 A nobleman..reproved an actor for not holding a scythe as a labourer does: he got a lecture on the elements of the vraisemblable. Stage-scything is not like scything. 1978Times 22 Aug. 13/4 Sir John Colville's delightful speculations..on what would have happened if George Washington had lost seemed to be remarkably vraisemblable. |