Usage History of 'proverbial'

The following chart shows how frequently 'proverbial' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'proverbial' occurred 2 times in books in 1564 and 82,435 times in 2008. From 1564 to 2008, the word 'proverbial' was used a total of 1,711,229 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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