Definition of "verisimilitudes" []

• Plural form of verisimilitude. (noun)

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• "The language employed is not some absolutist means of communication but a very cynical construction of distractions, distortions and meaninglessness designed to tenderize our brains so we cling to images, symbols, key words, representations, and 'verisimilitudes' of substance - to cop a postmodernist term."
• "Hence, for example, some have argued that Abelard's statement in his theology disclaiming any ability or pretense to address the issues necessary for salvation or to give anything more than verisimilitudes about the divine, is a concession to his persecutors more than a sincere statement of his view of his own work."
• "This shows that in the case of literary forgeries one need not be surprised by verisimilitudes, and that it is never safe to say that a literary forger could not have done this or that."