proverbiality

== English == === Etymology === From proverbial +‎ -ity. === Noun === proverbiality (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being proverbial. 1874, "English vers de société," The Living Age, vol. 122, no. 1580, p. 718: For such a quatrain and couplet as the following it is scarcely hazardous to predict proverbiality:— They eat and drink and scheme and plod And go to church on Sunday; And many are afraid of God And more of Mrs. Grundy. . . . The Cockney met in Middlesex or Surrey Is often cold and always in a hurry. === References === Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.