Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being canonical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being canonical; canonicity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
canonical .
Etymologies
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canonical + -ness
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Examples
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He strongly urges that religion should rest on the broadest foundations; on the Being of God rather than on a future state of rewards and punishments, on that state itself rather than on the endless duration of it; on the essentials of the Christian faith rather than on the meaning of particular texts or the canonicalness of some certain books.
Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell. 1817-1893 1907
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