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Proving vs Prosing - What's the difference?

proving | prosing |

As nouns the difference between proving and prosing

is that proving is (homeopathy) experimentation to determine which substances cause which effects when ingested while prosing is tedious talk or writing.

As a verb proving

is .

As an adjective prosing is

writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.

proving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (homeopathy) experimentation to determine which substances cause which effects when ingested
    • a book of provings

    prosing

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)

    Noun

  • Tedious talk or writing.
  • * 1870 , Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
    • I did not like to propose an adjournment thither too hastily, but patiently endured the prosings of my cicerone in the interior of the church.
    (Webster 1913)