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Phrenesis vs Parenesis - What's the difference?

phrenesis | parenesis |

As nouns the difference between phrenesis and parenesis

is that phrenesis is phrenitis while parenesis is exhortation.

phrenesis

English

Noun

(phreneses)
  • (obsolete, medicine) phrenitis
  • madness, frenzy

    • Quotations

    * "Before the Armada, the Army of Flanders had experienced its share of mutinies or 'furies'--as the ravages of licentious soldiery were called when the phrenesis of indiscipline came over them" - Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe, The Spanish Armada, the Experience of War in 1588, (Oxford, 1988).

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    parenesis

    English

    Alternative forms

    * parainesis, paraenesis,

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (rhetoric) Exhortation

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