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Webster 1913 Edition


Prosaism

Pro′sa-ism

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Noun.
That which is in the form of prose writing; a prosaic manner.
Coleridge.

Definition 2024


prosaism

prosaism

English

Noun

prosaism (plural prosaisms)

  1. A manner, quality, expression, style, phrase or word that is prosaic.
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      Euge! Heinrichi. O, the sublime bathos of thy prosaism — the muddy eddy of thy logic! Thou art the only man to understand a poet!

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