proverbially

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English

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adv

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"The bee is a proverbially busy creature."
"“Unless I am gravely in error you are yourself a very brave man, and brave men are proverbially magnanimous.”"

Etymology tree English proverbial Middle English -ly English -ly English proverbially From proverbial + -ly.

more proverbially (comparative) most proverbially (superlative)

proverb proverbial

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What does proverbially mean?

In a manner that uses proverbs; in or according to proverbs.

Where does proverbially come from?

Etymology tree English proverbial Middle English -ly English -ly English proverbially From proverbial + -ly.

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