Meanings
adjectiveparænetical (comparative more parænetical, superlative most parænetical)
comparative more parænetical · superlative most parænetical
- obsoleteObsolete form of paraenetical.
For in all discourses that are parænetical, as this Epistle for the most part is, there are always some principles taken for granted, which give life and efficacy unto the exhortations in them, and into which these are resolved.
1812, John Owen, An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, J. Ritchie; second edition, Volume I, Exercitation VIII, page 136
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