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

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

Take even the famous, the immortal apologue of Mrs. Partington.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George

There was really a touching truth in it, the stuff of—what did people call such things?—an apologue or a parable.

From The Sacred Fount by James, Henry

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

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