Definition of "proverbs" [proverbs]

• Plural form of proverb. (noun)

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• "Wisdom for the practice of life has among all nations taken a figurative shape, passing from myth or fable into the contracted sayings we term proverbs and arriving in the Greek schools of philosophy at ethical systems."
• "You encourage me very much and the lips of the rightous feed many {in proverbs} which is a description of your writings."
• "Whose charms were told in proverbs, those beauties à-la-mode?"