Crossword-Solution: FABULIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fabulist | n. | One who invents or writes fables. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “FABULIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| APOLOGUES, composer of | 1 answer |
| Aesop, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Aesop, notably | 1 answer |
| COMPOSER of apologues | 1 answer |
| person who invents or recounts fables | 1 answer |
| FABLE writer | 2 answers |
| Aesop, for one | 3 answers |
| taleteller | 4 answers |
| A PERSON WHO TELLS OR INVENTS FABLES | 11 answers |
| AESOP | 12 answers |
| Liar | 35 answers |
| composer | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with FABULIST (5)
Neither did the great fabulist lack posthumous honors; for a statue was erected to his memory at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek sculptors.
None of the stories are precisely those of Aesop, and none have the concinnity, terseness, and unmistakable deduction of the lesson intended to be taught by the fable, so conspicuous in the great Greek fabulist.
The syllogism has produced all the evils which the fabulist so eloquently condemned, and has done nothing good or useful: it is as devoid of truth as of justice.
Moreover, there lay, perhaps, at the bottom of this primitive sort of fable, a humanity, a tenderness of rough truths; so that at the end of some story, in which vice or folly had met with its destined punishment, the fabulist might be able to assure his auditors, as we have often to assure tearful children on the like occasions, that they may dry their eyes, for none of it was true.
Wherever he has really written after the old model, there is something to be deprecated: in spite of all the spirit and freshness, in spite of his happy assumption of that cheerful acceptation of things as they are, which, rightly or wrongly, we come to attribute to the ideal fabulist, there is ever a sense as of something a little out of place.
Quotes with FABULIST (1)
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1981–2012).