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apologues

apologues is the plural of apologue.

Meaning of apologue

Noun

apologue (countable and uncountable, plural apologues)

  1. 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...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
  2. (rhetoric) The use of fable to persuade the audience.

Questions about apologues

What is apologues the plural of?
Apologues is the plural of apologue.

Words near apologues in the dictionary

  1. apologizin'
  2. apologizing
  3. apologizingly
  4. apologizings
  5. apologue
  6. apologues
  7. apology
  8. Apolonia
  9. Apolonio
  10. Apolonio Samson
  11. Apolonios

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