˜yÐÄvlog

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prosaist

[ proh-zey-ist ]

noun

  1. a person who writes prose.
  2. a prosaic, dull, or commonplace person.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of prosaist1

1795–1805; < Latin ±è°ùŲõ²¹ prose + -ist
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Example Sentences

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All sorrow raises us above the civic Ceremonial-law, and makes the Prosaist a Psalmist: in sorrow alone have women courage to front opinion.

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All sorrow raises us above the civic Ceremonial-law, and makes the Prosaist a Psalmist; in sorrow alone have women courage to front opinion.

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Though he had the good qualities of a trecentisto prosaist, Ser Giovanni was in this respect but a poor artist.

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Thou thyself, O cultivated reader, who too probably art no Psalmist, but a Prosaist, knowing God only by tradition, knowest thou any corner of the world where at least Force is not?

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Now and again some poet or prosaist may have said to another, "What has become of that man Soames?" but I never heard any such question asked.

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