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

Shortly afterwards, it was again brought forward by Dr. Franklin, in an ingenious apologue, marked by his peculiar humor, simplicity, logic, and humanity.

From White Slavery in the Barbary States by Sumner, Charles

The apologue seizes on that which man has in common with creatures below him, and the parable on that which he has in common with God.

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

Madame d'Harville could not restrain a smile at this singular apologue.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Sue, Eugène