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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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

Sir W. Scott.

prosing ‎(not comparable)

Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.
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prosing ‎(countable and uncountable, plural prosings)

Tedious talk or writing. [from 18th c.]
- 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.