verisimilitude

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VERISIMIL'ITUDE, noun [Latin verisimilitudo.] the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood. Verisimilitude and opinion are an easy purchase; but true knowledge is dear and difficult.
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