Both Uses of
plausible
in
Middlemarch
- Some people who had lost by him called him a vicious man; but he regarded horse-dealing as the finest of the arts, and might have argued plausibly that it had nothing to do with morality.†
Chpt 3 *plausibly = with apparent reasonableness (though unproven)
- This was the most plausible explanation of a speech which had caused rather a startling change in his expectations.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
apparently reasonable, but unproven