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Topic: CHRISTIANITY

Date: 1300-1400
Language: French
Origin: parabole, from Late Latin parabola 'comparison', from Greek parabole, from paraballein 'to compare'

parable

 noun
     
par‧a‧ble [countable]
RRC a short simple story that teaches a moral or religious lesson, especially one of the stories told by Jesus in the Bible
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