prosaismn.

1782 Brit. Mag. & Rev. 1 127/1 Those absurd metaphors and wretched prosaisms, that abound in some works.

1800 W. Wordsworth in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads (ed. 2) I. Pref. p. xxiii There is a numerous class of critics who, when they stumble upon these prosaisms as they call them, imagine that they have made a notable discovery.

1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Nov. 10 There are prosaisms and colloquial turns which every now and then remind us of the restraints.

1951 Amer. Slavic & East European Rev. 10 225 Tuwin's language, too, is a very free mixture of poetisms, prosaisms, slang, sometimes almost independent of the ordinary vocabulary and the laws of syntax.

2002 E. J. Kenney in B. W. Boyd Brill's Compan. Ovid ii. 36 Syntactical prosaisms include, e.g., forms such as estote, favored for metrical reasons rather than as imparting solemnity.

1787 A. Seward Let. 11 Nov. (1811) I. 352 Ever have you found me ready to acknowledge the prosaism of many lines which you have pointed out in my most favourite poets.

1855 Fraser's Mag. 51 700 Not a picturesque bit of building was to be seen;..nothing but the most arid prosaism.

1900 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 551/1 The rock on which many novelists affiliated with the modern French school find shipwreck is prosaism.

1972 Times 3 May 12/2 A Lion in the Meadow..is a delightful fantasy which slyly pokes fun at adult prosaism.

2004 New Republic (Nexis) 6 Sept. 29 Pop prosaism has reached full bloom with the work of a school of young..singer-songwriters whose aesthetic is based upon having no particular place to go and nothing in particular to say.