prosaism

[Latin pros a =prose; Eng. suff. ism.] A prose idiom; a prosaic manner. "A mode liable to degenerate into a creeping prosaism and trivial love of detail."-G. H. Lewes: Hist. of Philoso IMG:content-1629.png:[blocks in formation] geny. IMG:content-1630.png:[blocks in formation] "The proscenium of the face." Herrick: Hesperides , p. 146. *pro-sçind', v . t. [Lat. proscindo.] To rend. proscind and prostitute the Imperial purple." Gauden: Tears of the Church, p. 573. "They did