Usually means: Encouraging someone to accept philosophy.
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  1. protreptic: Merriam-Webster
  2. protreptic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. protreptic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. protreptic: Wordnik
  5. protreptic: Wiktionary
  6. protreptic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Protreptic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. protreptic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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▸ adjective:  Serving to instruct; didactic.
▸ noun:  A didactic speech, book, etc.

Similar:
protreptical, paideutic, paraenetical, parenetic, homiletic, epidictical, parænetical, preacherish, epexegetic, paedagogic, more...

Opposite:
apotreptic, antiproretic, counterprotreptic

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Similar:
protreptical, paideutic, paraenetical, parenetic, homiletic, epidictical, parænetical, preacherish, epexegetic, paedagogic, more...

Opposite:
apotreptic, antiproretic, counterprotreptic



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