proverbiality
proverbiality noun: the state or characteristic of being proverbial.
Noun
proverbiality (uncountable)
- The state or characteristic of being proverbial.
- For such a quatrain and couplet as the following it is scarcely hazardous to predict proverbiality:—
They eat and drink and scheme and plod
And go to church on Sunday;
And many are afraid of God
And more of Mrs. Grundy.
. . .
The Cockney met in Middlesex or Surrey
Is often cold and always in a...1874, "English vers de société," The Living Age, vol. 122, no. 1580, p. 718 - The degree of proverbiality, or currency in oral tradition, attained by these exaggerations is difficult to assess.1968, Shirley L. Arora, “Spanish Proverbial Exaggerations from California”, in Western Folklore, volume 27, number 4, page 232
- For such a quatrain and couplet as the following it is scarcely hazardous to predict proverbiality:—
Origin of proverbiality
From proverbial + -ity.
Questions about proverbiality
- What does proverbiality mean?
- Proverbiality means the state or characteristic of being proverbial.
- What part of speech is proverbiality?
- Proverbiality is a noun.
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