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deuterocanonical books

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plural noun

  1. the books of the Bible regarded by the Roman Catholic Church as canonical but not universally acknowledged as such in the early church, including, in the Old Testament, most of the Protestant Apocrypha.

Etymology

Origin of deuterocanonical books

First recorded in 1720–30; deutero- + canonical

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He was flipping through his Bible, the Catholic version with the deuterocanonical books, bound in shiny black leather.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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