"epimyth" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From Greek ἐπιμύθιον, neutral of ἐπιμύθιος, from ἐπί ‘upon’ + μῦθος ‘story, fable’.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1881, William Fleming, Henry Calderwood, A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences, page 664:",
          "text": "The epimyth, coming after the fable, the moral.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, Daniele Vare, The Quarterly Review, page 448:",
          "text": "[I]t is the Odyssean episode with a Christian epimyth.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Reb Moshe Walich, Book of Fables: The Yiddish Fable Collection of Reb Moshe Wallich, Frankfurt Am Main, 1697, page 19:",
          "text": "In principle each fable in the collection is divided into two parts: the narrative itself, followed by an explicit moral or epimyth.\n...\nIn most of the fables the length of the epimyth ranges between six and twelve lines.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Edward W. Wheatley, Mastering Aesop: medieval education, Chaucer and his followers, page 227:",
          "text": "[P]resumably the “man of education” did not reproduce the epimyth of the fable, which warns that one should always anticipate the result of one's actions.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Jerold C. Frakes, Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750: With Introduction and Commentary, page 750:",
          "text": "[T]he first five fables follow a different sequence in the two texts, which causes a logical problem in the epimyth to fable no. 6 in Wallich's collection; and tale no. 35 from the earlier collection is omitted by Moses Wallich.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The moral of a story."
      ],
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          "story",
          "story"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "epimythium"
        }
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    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛpɪmɪθ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "epimyth"
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  "etymology_text": "From Greek ἐπιμύθιον, neutral of ἐπιμύθιος, from ἐπί ‘upon’ + μῦθος ‘story, fable’.",
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        "plural"
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          "ref": "1881, William Fleming, Henry Calderwood, A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences, page 664:",
          "text": "The epimyth, coming after the fable, the moral.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, Daniele Vare, The Quarterly Review, page 448:",
          "text": "[I]t is the Odyssean episode with a Christian epimyth.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Reb Moshe Walich, Book of Fables: The Yiddish Fable Collection of Reb Moshe Wallich, Frankfurt Am Main, 1697, page 19:",
          "text": "In principle each fable in the collection is divided into two parts: the narrative itself, followed by an explicit moral or epimyth.\n...\nIn most of the fables the length of the epimyth ranges between six and twelve lines.",
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          "ref": "2000, Edward W. Wheatley, Mastering Aesop: medieval education, Chaucer and his followers, page 227:",
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        },
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          "ref": "2004, Jerold C. Frakes, Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750: With Introduction and Commentary, page 750:",
          "text": "[T]he first five fables follow a different sequence in the two texts, which causes a logical problem in the epimyth to fable no. 6 in Wallich's collection; and tale no. 35 from the earlier collection is omitted by Moses Wallich.",
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        }
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