paroemiology

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pəˌɹiːmiˈɒlədʒi/

Noun

paroemiology (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of paremiology
    • 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:
      Paroemiology, or the study and collection of proverbs, is a morass into which one enters at one's peril.
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