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apologue

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈæpəlɒɡ/

Definition of apologue

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable.
    “"Still I must bear my hard lot as well as I can—at least, I shall be amongst gentlefolks, and not with vulgar city people": and she fell to thinking of her Russell Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes.”
    “[…] but though the mythic hero may thus be made to figure in a moral apologue, an imagination so little in keeping with his unethic nature jars upon the reader's mind.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable.
    “"Still I must bear my hard lot as well as I can—at least, I shall be amongst gentlefolks, and not with vulgar city people": and she fell to thinking of her Russell Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes.”
    “[…] but though the mythic hero may thus be made to figure in a moral apologue, an imagination so little in keeping with his unethic nature jars upon the reader's mind.”
  2. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable)The use of fable to persuade the audience.

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Etymology

Borrowed from French apologue, from Latin apologus from Ancient Greek ἀπόλογος (apólogos, “story, tale, fable”) from ἀπό- (apó-, “off, away from”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”). Equivalent to apo- + -logue.

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