单词 | proverbializing |
释义 | proverbializingn. Now rare. The action of making or uttering proverbs. ΚΠ 1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 125 I forbear from any farther Proverbializing [Gk. παροιμιάζεσθαι]. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) I. 129 Perhaps the best specimen of Sancho's proverbializing. 1852 M. Stuart Comm. Bk. Prov. Introd. 54 This mode of proverbializing was not unknown to the Hebrews. 1993 N. Wright in W. Allston Corr. App. iii. 593 The chief mark of his style..is a certain proverbializing or coining of figures of speech. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). proverbializingadj. rare. That makes or utters proverbs. ΚΠ 1685 J. Jackson et al. Annot. Holy Bible II. sig. Ff/1 These Proverbialising scoffers compared the true Prophets with the false. 1996 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 109 246 A proverbializing hermeneutic tradition represented the only viable strategy for performing and interpreting lyric songs of sorrow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1683adj.1685 |
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