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parænetical

parænetical is the obsolete form of paraenetical.

Meaning of paraenetical

Adjective

paraenetical (comparative more paraenetical, superlative most paraenetical)

  1. (archaic) Giving advice; advisory, hortatory.
    • To what end are such paraenetical discourses? You may as soon remove Mount Caucasus as alter some men's affections.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...

Forms of parænetical

comparativemore parænetical
superlativemost parænetical

Questions about parænetical

What is parænetical the obsolete form of?
Parænetical is the obsolete form of paraenetical.

Words near parænetical in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parænetical (page history and authors); paraenetical (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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