CANON


Meaning of CANON in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

canon law

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

literary

Our literary canons have largely been constructed on such Renaissance suppositions.

None of the women who paid her tribute challenged the social and literary canons as she had done.

As an example, Graff raises the relation of a feminist literary canon to more familiar ones.

In doing so the literary canon is forced to change.

■ NOUN

law

As a body they upheld the interpretation of canon law as prohibiting women from this ceremony.

Father Young helped scores of divorced Catholics find a comfortable corner in the Church, but he could not change canon law .

The science of the canon law had been born.

According to canon law , that should be done.

Therefore church law must do it - that is, canon law.

His papal decrees were the foundation of canon law until their update in 1917.

Conditioned by church canon law , participation by clerics in politics was forbidden.

In rabbinic canon law , the rabbi explained, human life does not simply begin at conception.

lawyer

In the twelfth century the canon lawyers devised an elaborate, and comparatively humane, legal framework for poor relief.

The monks of Canterbury chapter elected Thomas de Cobham, canon lawyer , theologian and royal diplomat.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He has now acted in all 37 plays of the Shakespeare canon .

I knew that I was violating all the canons of journalistic ethics.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A much earlier development than the biblical canon was the evolution of the threefold ministry of bishop, presbyter, and deacon.

And a film and video canon , or standard of excellence, is developing by which to measure theatrical productions of Shakespeare.

As its name implies, it has affinities with Realism, while rejecting its simpler canons.

Clearly the availability of judgments and recent canons and books on procedure made a difference to the judges.

For all of these the canons survive, recording royal involvement or approval.

Institutions form canons and work to maintain hierarchies within them.

Two canons swaggered by from the cathedral, clad in thick woollen robes lined with miniver.

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