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‖ vraisemblance|vrɛsɑ̃blɑ̃s|
[F. (16th c.), f. vrai true + semblance appearance, semblance.]
1. An appearance of truth; verisimilitude.
1802Scott Let. 8 Sept. (1932) I. 156 To give to fiction itself the charms of truth or at least of vraisemblance. 1831Scott Quentin D. Introd., You remove from the mind the vraisemblance, the veracity, of the whole representation. 1841C'tess Blessington Idler in France viii. I. 170 There is a fearful vraisemblance in some of the scenes with all that one has read or pictured to oneself, as daily occurring during the terrible days of the Revolution. 1880Standard 10 Dec., He would have given a greater air of fairness and vraisemblance to the story.
2. A representation, picture.
1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green iii. ii, Miss Patty's taper fingers transferred to paper the vraisemblance of a pair of sturdy Bondagers. |