Prosily

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a prosy manner.

    "By what magic could the young student escape the weary old professor, who was prosily proving Time merely a form of thought; a proposition of which, to judge by the little value he appeared to set on the subject of his discourse, he must himself have been fully persuaded?"

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a prosy manner wordnet

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"By what magic could the young student escape the weary old professor, who was prosily proving Time merely a form of thought; a proposition of which, to judge by the little value he appeared to set on the subject of his discourse, he must himself have been fully persuaded?"

Etymology

From prosy + -ly.

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