proser
Americannoun
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prosers
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a person who talks or writes in prose.
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a person who talks or writes in a dull or tedious fashion.
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"What a bore that must be he is a most insufferable proser."
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
Crites, who is not more long-winded than may be permitted to a polite proser, at least on the Thames of a summer evening, somewhat condensed, reasoneth thus.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
Truth was, my outward eyes were closed, Although I did not know it; Deep into dream-land I had dozed, And thus was happily transposed From proser into poet.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
Your late proposal from him made me hint this to * *, who is a much better proser and scholar than I am, and a very superior man indeed.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
The consequence was, I soon got the name of an intolerable proser, and should in a little while have been completely excommunicated had I not changed my plan of operations.
From Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving
If the poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Saddletree, like other prosers, was blessed with a happy obtuseness of perception concerning the unfavourable impression which he sometimes made on his auditors.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Sir Walter Scott
He would be the awfullest of prosers if he had the gift of the gab.’
From That Stick by Charlotte Mary Yonge
He read his Swinburne again, and unearthed from the bottom of a trunk some books that dealt with the decadent's joys,—poets of the Flesh, and prosers of the Devil, in his many weary forms.
From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren
His sermons were pithy and short; and he always spoke of your half-hour preachers, as illiterate prosers, who did not understand how to condense their thoughts.
From Satanstoe by James Fenimore Cooper
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