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parænesis

parænesis is the alternative spelling of paraenesis.

Meaning of paraenesis

Noun

paraenesis (usually uncountable, plural paraeneses)

  1. (usually) Advice or exhortation, particularly of a moral or religious nature.
  2. (rhetoric, usually) A warning of impending evil.

Forms of parænesis

pluralparæneses

Questions about parænesis

What is parænesis the alternative spelling of?
Parænesis is the alternative spelling of paraenesis.

Words near parænesis in the dictionary

  1. Pará nut
  2. Pará nuts
  3. Pará rubber tree
  4. Pará rubber trees
  5. paræneses
  6. parænesis
  7. parænetic
  8. parænetical
  9. paræstheses
  10. paræsthesia
  11. paræsthesis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parænesis (page history and authors); paraenesis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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