CANONICAL in a Sentence
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18 example sentences for CANONICAL, such as:
1. It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue.
2. She kept the durable canon of American short fiction.
3. It should be included in the canons of a polite society.
4. The Church's canon law forbids remarriage of divorced persons.
5. It is the canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation.
2. She kept the durable canon of American short fiction.
3. It should be included in the canons of a polite society.
4. The Church's canon law forbids remarriage of divorced persons.
5. It is the canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation.
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Meanings and Examples of CANONICAL
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canonical
a. appearing in a biblical canon
a. of or relating to or required by canon law
Classic Sentence:
1 Six was the rigid, the canonical supper-hour, but at half-past six he had not come.
2 She cried to the party, with the canonical amount of sprightliness, "Good-by, everybody."
3 It may be the office has helped to cover some of his canonical irregularities.
4 The sprinkling, and, indeed, the immersion of adults is a perfectly canonical practice.
5 It is the canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
6 It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue.
7 The mincer now stands before you invested in the full canonicals of his calling.
8 Like a levite's robe of plain linen the faded worn soutane draped the kneeling figure of one whom the canonicals or the bell-bordered ephod would irk and trouble.
9 A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his vicars-general.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
10 He was Des Roches le Masle, canon of Notre Dame, who had formerly been valet of a bishop, who introduced him to his Eminence as a perfectly devout man.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
Context Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
11 The bucket travelled across a box canon three hundred feet deep, and about a third full of water.
12 Yes, it was the same flesh, the same chair a canon, the sight of which had even then filled him with horror, as by a presentiment.
13 For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art.
Example Sentence:
1 Other people ascribe his exclusion from the canon to an unsubtle form of racism.
2 She kept the durable canon of American short fiction.
3 Scholars have long argued about the inspiration for Shakespeare's canon; now a piece of software, used for detecting plagiarism among university students, may have the answer.
4 The Church's canon law forbids remarriage of divorced persons.
5 It should be included in the canons of a polite society.