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Paraenesis
/pəˈɹiːnɪsɪs/
Advice or exhortation, particularly of a moral or religious nature.
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noun
- 1
Advice or exhortation, particularly of a moral or religious nature.
- 2
A warning of impending evil.
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| exhortationnoun | Language intended to give advice or to urge or encourage. |
| parænesisnoun | Alternative spelling of paraenesis. [Advice or exhortation, particularly of a moral or religious nature.] |
| parainesisnoun | Alternative form of parenesis. [(rhetoric) Exhortation] |
| parenesisnoun | (rhetoric) Exhortation |
| palingesianoun | (theology) palingenesis |
| parathesisnoun | (printing) The matter contained within brackets. |
| epexegesisnoun | (rhetoric) An additional explanation or explanatory material. |
| preteritionnoun | The act of passing by, disregarding or omitting. |
| paradosisnoun | religious teaching based on tradition or on the parables of Jesus |
| exemplumnoun | An example. |
| prophetrynoun | (obsolete) Prophecy. |
| paracyesisnoun | (medicine, archaic, uncommon) Synonym of ectopic pregnancy. |
| paedeuticsnoun | Alternative form of paideutics. [(dated) The science or art of teaching.] |
| parabolanoun | (geometry) The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix). |
| pericopenoun | A passage of Scripture to be read in public worship or a book containing such passages. |
| paroemianoun | A proverb. |
| counsel of perfectionnoun | (Christianity) Advice as to a means of striving for moral perfection. |
| panegyrynoun | Archaic Egyptological spelling of panegyris |
| parusianoun | (rhetoric) A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past events or the prediction of future ones. |
| epiphrasisnoun | epexegesis |
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