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

Sir Walter Scott’s judgment that the Buke is “a poetical apologue ... without any view whatever to local or natural politics” is certainly the most reasonable.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

A round of hoarse merriment went to this shrewd apologue, of which I was yet to learn the application; but waited not long for it.

From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Wallis, Arthur F.

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

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

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