Apologue Definition

ăpə-lôg, -lŏg
noun
A moral fable, especially one having animals or inanimate objects as characters.
American Heritage
A short allegorical story with a moral; fable.
Webster's New World

A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable.

Wiktionary
(rhetoric) Use of fable to persuade the audience.
Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Apologue

Noun

Singular:
apologue
Plural:
apologues

Origin of Apologue

  • French from Latin apologus from Greek apologos apo- apo- logos speech leg- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French apologue, from Latin apologus.

    From Wiktionary

Apologue Sentence Examples

  • Strenuous devotion to the deliverance of mankind from dangers and pests is the " virtue " which, in Prodicus' famous apologue on the Choice of Hercules, the hero preferred to an easy and happy life.

  • Sir Walter Scott's judgment that the Buke is "a poetical apologue.

  • In Blanquerna (1283), a novel which describes a new Utopia, Lull renews the Platonic tradition and anticipates the methods of Sir Thomas More, Campanella and Harrington, and in the Libre de Maravelles (1286) he adopts the Oriental apologue from Kalilah and Dimnah.

  • Indeed, we have evidence of sound, if conventional, principle in Prodicus's apologue of the " Choice of Heracles," and of honourable, though eccentric, practice in the story of Protagoras's treatment of defaulting pupils.

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Words Starting With

AAPAPO

Words Ending With

EUEGUE

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