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Webster 1913 Edition
Prosing
Pros′ing
,Noun.
Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.
Sir W. Scott.
Definition 2024
prosing
prosing
English
Adjective
prosing (not comparable)
- Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.
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Noun
prosing (countable and uncountable, plural prosings)
- Tedious talk or writing. [from 18th c.]
- 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
- He had great pretensions to wisdom […] but he was grievously given to metaphysics, and the prince found his prosings even more ponderous than those of the sage Eben Bonabben.
- 1870, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
- I did not like to propose an adjournment thither too hastily, but patiently endured the prosings of my cicerone in the interior of the church.
- 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra: