prosistn.

1809 in S. T. Coleridge Let. Dec. (1959) III. 266 Lessing, the best German prosist.

1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal ix. 154 Imaginative thinkers, whether they be poets or prosists.

1947 Hispania 30 314 Eighteenth-century Spanish scholars protested in vain against this situation which could give little comfort to Gallicized prosists.

1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 May 509 No literary scholar or critic would dream of bracketing together those four writers, all of them major..nineteenth century prosists.

1997 Encycl. Mexico II. 1413 A born prosist and a writer's writer, [Julio] Torri was a published author not as a result of his own efforts but because of the insistent intervention of close friends.