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Locution vs Proverb - What's the difference?

locution | proverb |

As nouns the difference between locution and proverb

is that locution is a phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals through repeated usage 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.

locution

English

(wikipedia locution)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals through repeated usage.
    • The television show host is widely recognized for his all-too-common locutions .
  • The use of a word or phrase in an unusual or specialized way.
  • * 1992 , Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights (page 299)
    • So it cannot be supposed that promisings differ from other word-givings in that a word-giver makes a promise only if he or she uses the locution "I promise".
  • A supernatural revelation where a religious figure, statue or icon speaks, usually to a saint.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Related terms

    * colloquial * colloquium * colloquy * (l) * (l) * illocution * interlocutor * interlocution * loquacious * perlocution * soliloquy

    References

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    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

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