proser

American  

[proh-zer] / ˌproʊ zər /

noun

prosers plural

1. a person who talks or writes in prose.

2. a person who talks or writes in a dull or tedious fashion.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• prosers
  plural

Etymology

Origin of proser

First recorded in 1620–30; prose + -er ¹

Example Sentences

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proser prosers

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 Lowell, James Russell

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 Irving, Washington

I sympathize with you for the dole which you are dreeing under the inflictions of your honest proser.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

Let a good, thorough-paced proser get hold of one of these stories, and he carefully desiccates them of whatever fancy may be left, till he has reduced them to the proper dryness of fact.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell

The purger, the proser, the bard—   All quacks in a different style; Doctor Southey writes books by the yard.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

If the poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the prosers that one hears in pulpits, legislatures, lecture-rooms, at morning calls and well-appointed dinner-tables in Anglo-America, let no man infer against our poetic endowment.

From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)

Have I not read lives of all the illustrious prosers you gave me to look through?

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

The 'tout ensemble' of his movements wore a Grace of the soft ideal, seldom shown, And ne'er to be described; for to the dolour Of bards and prosers, words are void of colour.

From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

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 Wren, Percival Christopher