proser
Americannoun
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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.
Etymology
Origin of proser
Example Sentences
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A painter and composer Of taste and spirit when he wooed his bride;— What wonder if the man became a proser When she was snugly settled by his side?
From Love's Comedy by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)
I used to think him rather a proser; how I blessed his prosing now!
From The Altar Fire by Benson, Arthur Christopher
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 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
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 Moore, Thomas
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