Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dullness or tediousness in speech or writing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.
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- adjective Writing
prose ; speaking or writing in atedious orprosy manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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You want to hear about her; maybe you would find it kind of prosing; but there, the afternoon sun _is_ pretty hot, and the haymakers out there in the meadows have got a hard time of it.
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I divided my days between working really-hard at my Russian, going for walks or rides with Valla and Sara or East, prosing with the Count in the evenings playing cards with the family they have a form of whist called "biritsch" which has caught on in England this last few years, and we played that most evenings - and generally taking life easy.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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It was all one to me if they decided on arquebuses; after a month spent listening to them prosing about jamming ramrods, and getting oil on my trousers, I found myself sharing the view of old General Scarlett, who once told me:
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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The rest of his time he spent in talk, and since I was a new listener I had to endure a good deal of his prosing in those first weeks.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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"My - dear - Count!" says I, astonished, and everyone stopped talking; the Queen looked pop-eyed, and even Albert left off prosing to the noble corpse beside him.
Fiancée 2010
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Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters; wherever you went, to dinner or an excursion or to pay a call, or even take a stroll, you were deafened with their infernal prosing-I daren't go to the privy without making sure some seedy heeler wasn't lying in wait to get me to join a caucus.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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What a disappointment to find you prosing on seals.micdeniroQuote
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Seals of San Diego Can Stay 2009
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Is it too much to remember that when prosing in public?
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And also efforts to identify the perpetrators, but I wouldn't be prosing to go into any detail on that.
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If she were to be submitted to my tuition, it would take me half a century to undo what old squaretoes and his prim wife have been prosing into her, to give her a fashionable manner, or becoming nonchalance.
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