semicanonical

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adjective

Having a status approaching canonical.

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Meanings

adjectivesemicanonical (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving a status approaching canonical.

    Based on some of the vast semicanonical narrative literature, we may note Ksemendra's collection of avadanas (qv) because the author was not a Buddhist [...]

    2000, Kuśa Satyendra, Dictionary of Hindu Literature, page 39
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    Accorded a semicanonical status similar to that of the works of Bhai Gurdas, Nand Lal's Persian compositions (trans. Bawa 2006) are much simpler than the elaborately mannered Persian poetry favoured in the courtly circles [...]

    2014, Pashaura Singh, Louis E. Fenech, The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies, OUP Oxford, →ISBN

Origin

From semi- + canonical.

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Chicago

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