uncanonical
Americanadjective
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not in accordance with canons or rules.
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not belonging to the canon of Scripture.
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Origin of uncanonical
Example Sentences
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That might cause trepidation among fans — it seems uncanonical.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2017
Said Howlin' Mad of this uncanonical procedure: "He just had a hell of a knack for building things."
From Time Magazine Archive
Chief among these were the date of celebrating Easter, and the uncanonical method of cutting the tonsure in a crescent instead of a circle.
From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen
Senator Hanway's monkish brow went often puckered of a most uncanonical frown as he thought upon that sardonic Destiny which had thrust this Governor Obstinate forward to become a stumbling block in his way.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
A dissolution was actually granted in such a case where one of the parties turned Catholic, in 1857, by the bishop of Rio Janeiro, who pronounced an uncanonical marriage null and void.
From The Woman Who Dared by Epes Sargent
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