"proverbiality" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From proverbial + -ity.",
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          "ref": "1874, \"English vers de société,\" The Living Age, vol. 122, no. 1580, p. 718",
          "text": "For such a quatrain and couplet as the following it is scarcely hazardous to predict proverbiality:—\nThey eat and drink and scheme and plod\nAnd go to church on Sunday;\nAnd many are afraid of God\nAnd more of Mrs. Grundy.\n. . .\nThe Cockney met in Middlesex or Surrey\nIs often cold and always in a hurry."
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          "ref": "1968, Shirley L. Arora, “Spanish Proverbial Exaggerations from California”, in Western Folklore, volume 27, number 4, page 232:",
          "text": "The degree of proverbiality, or currency in oral tradition, attained by these exaggerations is difficult to assess.",
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          "ref": "2005, Rose Marie Beck, “Texts on Textiles: Proverbiality as Characteristic of Equivocal Communication at the East African Coast (Swahili)”, in Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 17, number 2, page 156:",
          "text": "Because other aspects are also seen as contributing to proverbiality—equivocation, authoritativeness, and negotiation of power relations—a text may be proverbial to various degrees.",
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        "The state or characteristic of being proverbial."
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  "etymology_text": "From proverbial + -ity.",
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          "ref": "1874, \"English vers de société,\" The Living Age, vol. 122, no. 1580, p. 718",
          "text": "For such a quatrain and couplet as the following it is scarcely hazardous to predict proverbiality:—\nThey eat and drink and scheme and plod\nAnd go to church on Sunday;\nAnd many are afraid of God\nAnd more of Mrs. Grundy.\n. . .\nThe Cockney met in Middlesex or Surrey\nIs often cold and always in a hurry."
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          "ref": "1968, Shirley L. Arora, “Spanish Proverbial Exaggerations from California”, in Western Folklore, volume 27, number 4, page 232:",
          "text": "The degree of proverbiality, or currency in oral tradition, attained by these exaggerations is difficult to assess.",
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