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

In the meanwhile, be content with the following version of the apologue, and be not too critical.

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 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

I am rather proud of this little apologue of the apple.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane