Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer of prose.
- noun One who proses or makes a tedious narration of uninteresting matters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A writer of prose.
- noun One who talks or writes tediously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete One who writes
prose . - noun One who
talks orwrites tediously .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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Clara herself a lover? and if that old proser, meaning the
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I beheld a damsel, white as a full moon when it mooneth on its fourteenth night, with joined eyebrows twain and languorous lids of eyne, breasts like pomegranates twin and dainty, lips like double carnelian, a mouth as it were the seal-of Solomon, and teeth ranged in a line that played with the reason of proser and rhymer, even as saith the poet,
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For none shall own me but he, because his cheek is smooth and the water of his mouth sweet as Salsabil; 273 his spittle is a cure for the sick and his charms daze and dazzle poet and proser, even as saith one of him,
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Nobody can understand your "leaks" but 8th year English Lit majors and most everybody's stopped reading them already -- since they're nothing more than mastubatory prose that tickles the poseur proser, more than it relays information.
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I love proser, I took a cash loan about a year ago, paid it off recently, and about to get my car loan from there … just my 2 cents. reply
Prosper Registers With SEC to Create a $500 Million Secondary Market in Peer-to-Peer Loans
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But a great revolution there has been, from nobody's reading anything, to every body's reading all things; and perhaps it began with that good old proser Richardson, the father of Pamela, Clarissa, and
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829
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Herodotus is telling of wonders that his friends, and we too, want to hear, that in the tragedies we hear the voice of Sophocles dictating, choked with emotion and tears; that even Roman historians wrote because they had something to tell, and Caesar, dull proser that he is, composed the _Commentaries_ not to provide us with style or grammatical curiosities, but as a record of extraordinary events.
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Hallam is a dull proser -- no discovery or illustration, no profound thought, no vivid description, not even a harmonious period.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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The boys, to whom their grandfather -- so far as they regarded him at all -- had mainly presented himself as a benevolent old proser, were surprised to find that they sincerely regretted him; and the events of the next few weeks threw up his merits (now that the time was past for rewarding them) into a sharp light which memory overarched with a halo.
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I used to think him rather a proser; how I blessed his prosing now!
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