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Definition of Prosing
1. n. Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.
Definition of Prosing
1. Adjective. Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prosing
1. prose [v] - See also: prose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prosing
Literary usage of Prosing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: With a Selection from Her by Fanny Burney (1889)
"... and I cannot give myself the trouble of recollection, not being in a prosing
humour. I shall therefore take an abrupt and rather cavalier leave of this ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Tame, dull, meagre, jejune, languid, feeble, prosing, prosy, prosaic, insipid,
spiritless, flat. Vapor* n. I. Gaseous state (of a substance ordi- ..."
3. Western India in 1838 by Marianna Postans (1839)
"I have been betrayed into such prosing, by compassion towards the condition of
a people among whom I have passed the happiest periods of my Indian sojourn, ..."
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