prosing

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English

Etymology

From prose +‎ -ing.

Adjective

prosing (not comparable)

  1. Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.

Noun

prosing (countable and uncountable, plural prosings)

  1. Tedious talk or writing.
    • 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
      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.
    • 1870, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine:
      I did not like to propose an adjournment thither too hastily, but patiently endured the prosings of my cicerone in the interior of the church.

Verb

prosing

  1. present participle and gerund of prose

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