a. [f. as prec. + -LIKE.] Like or resembling truth or the truth; † likely to be true, probable (quot. 1657).
1567. Drant, Horace, Art Poetry, A iv. If thou feyne, feyne then the things as truthlyke as you maye.
1570. Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), 124/1. They seme more legendlike, then truthlike.
1657. Earl Monm., trans. Paruta’s Pol. Disc., 78. To seek out the truest, or at least, the most truthlike causes thereof.
1894. J. T. Fowler, Adamnan, Introd. 25. It … mentions certain incidents in a remarkably naïve and truth-like manner.
Hence Truthlikeness, likeness to truth, verisimilitude.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. (1622), 241. He knew … how few there be that can discerne betweene trueth and truthlikenesse, betweene shewes and substance.
1865. W. Kay, Crisis Hupfeldiana, 81. The results may have such simplicity, truthlikeness, and internal concinnity as may make us accept them in spite of all.
1904. Westm. Gaz., 29 Aug., 3/1. The actor regards the part as farcical, for he pushes it … beyond truth-likeness.
