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- noun The state or characteristic of being
proverbial .
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Examples
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Even the commonest sailor spoke his ship's name -- if it were a fine vessel -- with the same affection that he spoke his wife's and cursed a bad ship by its name as if to tag its vileness with proverbiality.
The Delicious Vice Young Ewing Allison 1892
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It is to show _why_ Books of that kind are dull: what sort of writers ought to be quoted, etc.; proverbial writers: and what constitutes proverbiality, etc.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846
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