noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
canon law
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
literary
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Our literary canons have largely been constructed on such Renaissance suppositions.
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None of the women who paid her tribute challenged the social and literary canons as she had done.
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As an example, Graff raises the relation of a feminist literary canon to more familiar ones.
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In doing so the literary canon is forced to change.
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law
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As a body they upheld the interpretation of canon law as prohibiting women from this ceremony.
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Father Young helped scores of divorced Catholics find a comfortable corner in the Church, but he could not change canon law .
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The science of the canon law had been born.
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According to canon law , that should be done.
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Therefore church law must do it - that is, canon law.
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His papal decrees were the foundation of canon law until their update in 1917.
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Conditioned by church canon law , participation by clerics in politics was forbidden.
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In rabbinic canon law , the rabbi explained, human life does not simply begin at conception.
lawyer
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In the twelfth century the canon lawyers devised an elaborate, and comparatively humane, legal framework for poor relief.
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The monks of Canterbury chapter elected Thomas de Cobham, canon lawyer , theologian and royal diplomat.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He has now acted in all 37 plays of the Shakespeare canon .
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I knew that I was violating all the canons of journalistic ethics.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A much earlier development than the biblical canon was the evolution of the threefold ministry of bishop, presbyter, and deacon.
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And a film and video canon , or standard of excellence, is developing by which to measure theatrical productions of Shakespeare.
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As its name implies, it has affinities with Realism, while rejecting its simpler canons.
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Clearly the availability of judgments and recent canons and books on procedure made a difference to the judges.
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For all of these the canons survive, recording royal involvement or approval.
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Institutions form canons and work to maintain hierarchies within them.
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Two canons swaggered by from the cathedral, clad in thick woollen robes lined with miniver.