Prosing
adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 present participle and gerund of prose form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner. not-comparable
"the prosing speeches of the honest divine"
Example
More examples"the prosing speeches of the honest divine"
Etymology
From prose + -ing.
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