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Noun: parenesis (pareneses)
  1. (rhetoric) exhortation; admonition
    "In Deuteronomy it is often impossible to separate parenesis from history"
     
  2. A speech or text containing advice, encouragement, or exhortation
    "The graduation speech was filled with parenesis for the students' future endeavours";
    - paraenesis

Derived forms: pareneses

Type of: caution, caveat