uncanonically
Americanadverb
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in a way that does not conform to what is authorized or to what is generally recognized or accepted.
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in a way that does not conform to a canon, or an established body of texts, films, laws, etc.
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When Samuel David failed to win the contest, he promptly charged that it had been uncanonically conducted.
From Time Magazine Archive
If it was not—if the council had wrongfully or uncanonically condemned the successor of Peter—how could it be infallible? and when should its legislation in any other particulars be indisputable?
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson
In 1070 Archbishop Stigand was deposed as having been uncanonically chosen, and six or seven other bishops after him.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
Now, why were the two ecclesiastics so uncanonically kind to this wicked youth?
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
The King married her, uncanonically, it is true; but who was she to hold up church law before his face?
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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