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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations.
- A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.
- A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
- A drama exemplifying a proverb.
Verb
- To write or utter proverbs.
- To name in, or as, a proverb.
- To provide with a proverb.
Exempel
- His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
- Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by word, among all nations.
- Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool / In every street, do they not say, "How well / Are come upon him his deserts?"
- I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.
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