Both Uses
plausible
in
Middlemarch
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- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(plausible) apparently reasonable, but unproven
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)