apologue
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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
As La Fontaine puts it, an apologue is composed of two parts, body and soul.
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
And in my turn I have enacted, or experienced, many a little apologue.
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.