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Fable vs Faile - What's the difference?

fable | faile |

As verbs the difference between fable and faile

is that fable is (archaic) to compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true while faile is .

As a noun fable

is a fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue prototypically,.

fable

English

(wikipedia fable)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, .
  • Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
  • * 4:7,
    • Old wives' fables .
  • * ,
    • We grew / The fable of the city where we dwelt.
  • Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
  • * ,
    • It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods.
  • The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
  • * Dryden
    • The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral.

    Synonyms

    * (fiction to enforce a useful precept) morality play * (story to excite wonder) legend * (falsehood)

    Verb

    (fabl)
  • (archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
  • * Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI , IV-ii:
    • He Fables not.
  • * :
    • Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell.
  • * :
    • He fables , yet speaks truth.
  • (archaic) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
  • * :
    • The hell thou fablest .

    References

    * (Webster 1913) ----

    faile

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1566, author=William Adlington, title=The Golden Asse, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And lest by her long talke she should be found to trip or faile in her words, she filled their laps with gold, silver, and Jewels, and commanded Zephyrus to carry them away. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1577, author=Raphael Holinshed, title=Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=If they should giue battell, it was to be doubted least through treason among themselues, the armie should be betraied into the enimies hands, the which would not faile to execute all kind of crueltie in the slaughter of the whole nation. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1664-1665, author=Samuel Pepys, title=Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1665 N.S. Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But none can be got, which pleases him the thoughts of, for, if the Exchequer should succeede in this, his office would faile . }}

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