Prosing

adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Tedious talk or writing. countable, uncountable

    "He had great pretensions to wisdom […] but he was grievously given to metaphysics, and the prince found his prosings even more ponderous than those of the sage Eben Bonabben."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of prose form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner. not-comparable

    "the prosing speeches of the honest divine"

Example

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"the prosing speeches of the honest divine"

Etymology

From prose + -ing.

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