Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being canonical; canonicalness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.
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- noun The degree to which something is
canonical .
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Examples
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In his 1932 book Sherlock Holmes: Fact or Fiction , T. S. Blakeney used the term canonicity in reference to the mystery novels and short fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Margaret Russett locates in these moments when magazine writing thematizes its own materiality an allegory of the minor Romantics 'insight that canonicity is not a quality inherent in the work but a product of the work's transmission.
"Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists 2004
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Johnson had averred in the eighteenth century, that the test of canonicity is the test of time (440).
"Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists 2004
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Appropriated from Am 4: 9, whose canonicity is thus sealed by
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Its canonicity is certain; it is found in all Hebrew manuscripts of
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My background in literature — particularly as taught at a rigorous undergraduate institution, and as taught by my professors, who challenged the notion of canonicity — made it easier for me to think critically about our collections and our collecting policies.
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My background in literature — particularly as taught at a rigorous undergraduate institution, and as taught by my professors, who challenged the notion of canonicity — made it easier for me to think critically about our collections and our collecting policies.
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My background in literature — particularly as taught at a rigorous undergraduate institution, and as taught by my professors, who challenged the notion of canonicity — made it easier for me to think critically about our collections and our collecting policies.
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But Jerome seriously called their canonicity in question
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[A note here on the notion of canonicity so fully discussed by Vanhoozer: were we to treat Scripture's limits as negotiable, we should be challenging the significance of the written character of scriptural revelation.
'The Bible Today: Reading & Hearing', The Larkin-Stuart Lecture 2007
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