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English
Etymology
From paremia + -o- + -graphy.[1]
Noun
paremiography (uncountable)
- The collecting of proverbs.
2008, Wolfgang Mieder, Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 233:[…] 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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