Verisimility

Quick meaning: Verisimility is a noun meaning (obsolete) Verisimilitude.

Meaning

(obsolete) Verisimilitude.

Example Sentences

I will not allow your Genius the slightest approach to inspiration, and I can admit no verisimility in a reverie which is fixed on a foundation you now allow to be so weak.

Dryden has himself assigned the following reasons:—"The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility."

Word Forms

• verisimilities

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inverisimilitude, plausibility, unveracity, dislikelihood, inveracity, nonresemblance.

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