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truthlike, a.|ˈtruːθlaɪk|
[f. as prec. + -like.]
Like or resembling truth or the truth; † likely to be true, probable (quot. 1657).
1567Drant Horace, Art Poetry A iv, If thou feyne, feyne then the things as truthlyke as you maye. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 124/1 They seme more legendlike, then truthlike. 1657Earl of Monmouth tr. Paruta's Pol. Disc. 78 To seek out the truest, or at least, the most truthlike causes thereof. 1894J. T. Fowler Adamnan Introd. 25 It..mentions certain incidents in a remarkably naïve and truthlike manner.
Hence ˈtruthlikeness, likeness to truth, verisimilitude.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1622) 241 He knew..how few there be that can discerne betweene trueth and truthlikenesse, betweene shewes and substance. 1865W. Kay Crisis Hupfeldiana 81 The results may have such simplicity, truthlikeness, and internal concinnity as may make us accept them. 1904Westm. Gaz. 29 Aug. 3/1 The actor regards the part as farcical, for he pushes it..beyond truth-likeness. |