Citations:parænesis

Noun: optional spelling of

 * 1821, Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, John Murphy; Volume VII of XII, page #107:
 * He repeats the same prayer in his thirteenth parænesis.
 * 1866, Thomas Norton Harper, Peace Through the Truth, Longmans, Green & Co.; page #229:
 * The first is taken from Clement if Alexandria who in the course of a parænesis on sobriety in the drinking of wine, and of a defence of its lawful use against the Encratitæ, expresses himself upon the second point in this wise : *—“ For know for certain, that He also (i.e. Christ) used wine ; for He is man likewise.
 * 1886, Franz Hermann Reinhold Frank and Maurice J. Evans, System of the Christian Certainty, T. & T. Clark; second edition, page #22:
 * For it is false to say that this spirit can combine only with the popular devotional form of discourse, or with the form of the parænesis ; it is given to Christianity to speak in all languages, in the scientific among the others, and to charge all forms of presentation with the element of life, which on its side calls forth life.