apologue

American  

[ap-uh-lawg, -log] / ˈæp əˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg /

noun

1. a didactic narrative; a moral fable.

2. an allegory.

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apologue British  

/ ˈæpəˌlɒɡ /

noun

1. an allegory or moral fable

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Other Word Forms

• apologal adjective

Etymology

Origin of apologue

1545–55; (< Middle French ) < Latin apologus < Greek apólogos fable. See apo-, -logue

Example Sentences

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

Remarks.—This is a moral apologue on the benefits of keeping your word.

From Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Various

And in my turn I have enacted, or experienced, many a little apologue.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

It is noteworthy that the two fathers of apologue in the West were slaves, namely Aesop and Phaedrus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

Between Sacred and Profane Love, between the love of literature and the pursuit of politics, the line is not, in practice, drawn so hard and fast as in the beautiful apologue immortalised by Titian.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred