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Declaration vs Proverb - What's the difference?

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Declaration is a related term of proverb.


As nouns the difference between declaration and proverb

is that declaration is declaration (written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief) while proverb is a phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations.

As a verb proverb is

to write or utter proverbs.

declaration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief.
  • A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
  • The act or process of declaring.
  • (cricket) The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
  • (legal) In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff’s cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.
  • (computing) The specification of a variable's type

    • Quotations

    * 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1 *: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...

    Synonyms

    * (written or oral indication) avowal, notice, statement * (list of items for legal purposes) notice, statement * (act or process of declaring) notice

    See also

    * complaint * statutory * statutory declaration

    External links

    * (wikipedia) ----

    proverb

    English

    (wikipedia proverb)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations.
  • A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.
  • * Bible, John xvi. 29
    • His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb .
  • A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 37
    • Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb , and a by word, among all nations.
  • A drama exemplifying a proverb.

    • Synonyms

    * (phrase expressing a basic truth) adage, apothegm, byword, maxim, paroemia, saw, saying, sententia * See also

    Derived terms

    * proverbial * proverbiology * proverbs hunt in pairs

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To write or utter proverbs.
  • To name in, or as, a proverb.
  • * 1671 , John Milton, Samson Agonistes , lines 203-205:
    • Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool / In every street, do they not say, "How well / Are come upon him his deserts?"
  • To provide with a proverb.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.
    (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * ----