Paremiography

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The collecting of proverbs. uncountable

    "[…] with Gyula Paczolay's magisterial collection of European Proverbs in 55 languages (1997) being the magnum opus of modern comparative paremiography."

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"[…] with Gyula Paczolay's magisterial collection of European Proverbs in 55 languages (1997) being the magnum opus of modern comparative paremiography."

Etymology

From paremia + -o- + -graphy.

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