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prosily en · ADV

Etymology

From prosy + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a prosy manner.
   • He was earnestly but prosily orating at the audience. 1916, Peggy Edmund, Harold W. Williams, compilers, Toaster's Handbook:
   • By what magic could the young student escape the weary old professor, who was prosily proving Time merely a form of thought; a proposition of which, to judge by the little value he appeared to set on the subject of his discourse, he must himself have been fully persuaded? 1903, Richard Garnett, The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales:

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