paroemiology

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/pəˌɹiːmiˈɒlədʒi/

A form of paremiology — The study of proverbs.

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Meanings

nounparoemiology (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of paremiology.

    Paroemiology, or the study and collection of proverbs, is a morass into which one enters at one's peril.

    1978, David Kunzle, “World Upside Down: The Iconography of a European Broadsheet Type”, in Barbara A. Babcock, editor, The Reversible World: Symbolic Inversion in Art and Society, Cornell University Press, page 72
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