prosaism

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English

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Etymology

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Old French prosaïsme

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pɹəʊˈzeɪ.ɪzəm/, /ˈpɹəʊ.zeɪ.ɪzəm/

Noun

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prosaism (countable and uncountable, plural prosaisms)

  1. A manner, quality, expression, style, phrase or word that is prosaic.
    • 1821, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Heinrichs:
      Euge! Heinrichi. O, the sublime bathos of thy prosaism — the muddy eddy of thy logic! Thou art the only man to understand a poet!

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