Assertion: proverb | /r/HasProperty | defined
Facets:
value: usually
type: DEGREE
value: an instructive sentence,
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: A proverb [or proverbial phrase] is usually defined, an instructive sentence, or common and pithy saying, in which more is generally designed than expressed, famous for its peculiarity or elegance, and therefore adapted by the learned as well as the vulgar, by which it is distinguished from counterfeits which want such authority John Ray, A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, 1798