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

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

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

In Billy's apologue the Ministry was Tommy, one of the ladies was Liberalism, the other Socialism.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

Professor Huxley, in one of those smart passages of arms which so forcibly illustrated his intellectual vigour, gave an apologue, which I wish that I could steal without acknowledgment.

From Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies by Stephen, Leslie, Sir