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US
/ˈpɛɹəbəɫ/
]
[ UK /pˈæɹəbəl/ ]
[ UK /pˈæɹəbəl/ ]
NOUN
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(New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message
the parable of the prodigal son - a short moral story (often with animal characters)
How To Use parable In A Sentence
- Europe was last united in neolithic times, before the inseparable meshwork of land, people, community and trade separated into hierarchy, nations and cities.
- The parable Jesus told about the prodigal son shows us what love means.
- Kij: Nice to see Dream-Quest receive such prominence with that fantastic Gervasio Gallardo cover, inseparable from the contents thanks to childhood associations very similar to yours. MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves
- A separable reinforced concrete numerical model and fluid-solid interconnection method were used to predict the development of surface bulge in LS-DYNA.
- Browning is said to have written back that he used it to mean a piece of headgear for nuns, comparable to the cowls for monks he put in the same line.
- The planet Pluto is comparable in size to the moon.
- This table is comparable to the adjacency database used by OSPF. There is a neighbor table for each protocol that EIGRP supports.
- Tusking," published in March 1986, was the first of his poems to appear in the TLS: a powerful frightening parable of coloniser and colonised, it is untypical of Imlah's work only in its short lines. Archive 2009-04-01
- Note:From May 1, 2006, public transit tickets were sold by card swiping, so passenger transportation volume is uncomparable with that in 2005.
- In a richly ornamented setting with animals and plants on a red background, in 14 copper rosettes placed between lacunars, there are the Wise Virgins and Foolish Virgins of the New Testament parable; the former hold lighted lamps, the latter have lamps already extinguished.