Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prosaic style or quality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style.
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- noun The quality or state of being
prosaic ; a prosaic manner or style.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There can be no doubt that Levine offers readers of American poetry a singular vision, one whose temperate, almost holy prosaicism paradoxically offers a stunningly expansive view of what's possible in the English language.
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There can be no doubt that Levine offers readers of American poetry a singular vision, one whose temperate, almost holy prosaicism paradoxically offers a stunningly expansive view of what's possible in the English language.
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And a new fact for me in this theatre of the religions is the proximity, the banality, the prosaicism of God.
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And a new fact for me in this theatre of the religions is the proximity, the banality, the prosaicism of God.
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And a new fact for me in this theatre of the religions is the proximity, the banality, the prosaicism of God.
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"Figurative figures," she said, regaining prosaicism.
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Between a low moral prosaicism and a generous moral ideal was it possible for him to hesitate?
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His ideal itself is endangered; the atmosphere he would inhale is filled with poison; a desolating moral prosaicism springs up to justify a great social ugliness, and spreads in the air where his young hopes would try their wings; and in the imperfect strength of youth he has so much of dependence upon actual surroundings, that he must either war with their evil or succumb to it.
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So he first recognizes it with remorseless verity, depicts it in all its littleness and limitation; then strikes its connection with growth: and lo, the littleness becomes great in serving the greater; the harsh prosaicism begins to move in melodious measure; and out of that jarring, creaking mechanism of conventional society arise the grand rolling organ-harmonies of life.
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But it should also be remembered that hymns, in this respect, are subject to the common penalty, the inferiority in art, inherent in all didactic verse; although with a more pressing and powerful excuse than didactic verse can offer for its inevitable prosaicism.
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