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paroemiology en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /pəˌɹiːmiˈɒlədʒi/

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative 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: