apologue
Americannoun
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a didactic narrative; a moral fable.
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an allegory.
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of apologue
1545–55; (< Middle French ) < Latin apologus < Greek apólogos fable. See apo-, -logue
Example Sentences
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This reading of Louis and Claudia’s lineage allows writer Hannah Moscovitch to transform a station along the characters’ development track into an apologue about war and misery.
From Salon ● May 13, 2024
As often as this apologue is repeated, I still catch myself questioning its accuracy: Does the culture not prefer to hold people endlessly responsible for past indiscretions?
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 25, 2016
"It was, I believe, about this time, apropos of this game of which the origin is either Arabian or Chinese, that my apologue obtained the honours of print."
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by William Young
Erasmus has pointed out some of these sources, in the responses of oracles; the allegorical symbols of Pythagoras; the verses of the poets; allusions to historical incidents; mythology and apologue; and other recondite origins.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
The apologue was not delicate, but it conveyed a common impression.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley
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