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[ˈparəbl], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels
(e.g: the parable of the blind men and the elephant)
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Origin
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Middle English: from Old French parabole, from an ecclesiastical Latin sense ‘discourse, allegory’ of Latin parabola ‘comparison’, from Greek parabolē (see parabola)
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