Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A quality or style that is prosaic.
- noun A prosaic word, phrase, or other expression.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prose idiom; a prosaic phrase.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which is in the form of prose writing; a prosaic manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A manner, quality, expression, style, phrase or word that is
prosaic .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"prosaism" into which it led many minor versifiers.
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To have written Moses first as a prose novel would have entailed the setting up of a somewhat cumbersome mechanism, in which the devices of ‘naturalism’ would have led me to an unwholesome prosaism both in dialogue and récit.
Anthony Burgess, Moses (1976) Adam Roberts 2010
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To have written Moses first as a prose novel would have entailed the setting up of a somewhat cumbersome mechanism, in which the devices of ‘naturalism’ would have led me to an unwholesome prosaism both in dialogue and récit.
Archive 2010-06-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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Contemporary poetry suffers from dryness, prosaism, and imaginative commonplace, but these are hardly its worst features.
“The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose” : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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The house where Juliet was born, lived, and loved, is now turned into a vast warehouse for merchandize by the pitiless prosaism of Time.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various
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But he more than makes up for his harsh prosaism by singing, in unison with the singers unseen:
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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O, the sublime bathos of thy prosaism -- the muddy eddy of thy logic!
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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That Cameron sugars the pill of his strange story with every tried and tested Hollywood prosaism under the sun is perhaps no surprise.
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