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Noun: parenesis (pareneses)
  1. (rhetoric) exhortation; admonition.
    "In Deuteronomy it is often impossible to separate parenesis from history."
     
  2. Exhortation
    - paraenesis

Derived forms: pareneses

Type of: caution, caveat

Nearest

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