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What does "prose" mean?

Prose: Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.

Additional senses

  1. 2.(R. C. Ch.) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.
  2. 3.Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.
  3. 4.Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.
  4. 5.To write in prose.
  5. 6.To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
  6. 7.To write prose. Prosing or versing, but chiefly this latter. Milton.

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