prosaist
Americannoun
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a person who writes prose.
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a prosaic, dull, or commonplace person.
Etymology
Origin of prosaist
Example Sentences
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Now and again some poet or prosaist may have said to another, 'What has become of that man Soames?' but I never heard any such question asked.
From Seven Men by Sir Max Beerbohm
Putting Bacon aside, the condensed force and poignant brevity of whose aphoristic wisdom has no parallel in English, there is no other prosaist who possesses anything like Milton's command over the resources of our language.
From Milton by Mark Pattison
Though he had the good qualities of a trecentisto prosaist, Ser Giovanni was in this respect but a poor artist.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
Now and again some poet or prosaist may have said to another, "What has become of that man Soames?" but I never heard any such question asked.
From Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties by Sir Max Beerbohm
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