apologue
Americannoun
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a didactic narrative; a moral fable.
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an allegory.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of apologue
1545–55; (< Middle French ) < Latin apologus < Greek apólogos fable. See apo-, -logue
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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
He justly estimates his own merits in the pretty apologue that he prefixed to his Fables.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
An apologue is distinguished from a fable in that there is always some moral sense present, which there need not be in a fable.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
A tuft of primroses was blooming hard by the leg of an old, black table tombstone, and he stopped to contemplate the random apologue.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
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