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English
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
apologue (countable and uncountable, plural apologues)
- A short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC:"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.
1891, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture, page 409:[…] 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.
- (rhetoric) The use of fable to persuade the audience.
Derived terms
Translations
a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects
rhetoric: use of fable to persuade the audience
French
Etymology
From Latin apologus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόλογος (apólogos).
Noun
apologue m (plural apologues)
- apologue
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