[F. (16th c.), f. vrai true + semblance appearance, semblance.]
1. An appearance of truth; verisimilitude.
1831. Scott, Quentin D., Introd. You remove from the mind the vraisemblance, the veracity, of the whole representation.
1840. Lady 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.
1880. Standard, 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.
