prosers
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pluralof proser.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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If the poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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 George H. (George Henry) Calvert
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 George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
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 Charles James Lever