postcanon
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Postdating the development of a religious canon.
Example Sentences
- "In these instances, one is dealing with essentially a postcanon phenomenon, where editors are trying to add commentary to the book of Job."
- "In one recent review, for instance, a charismatic scholar rather acidly mocks the position of those who want to make a distinction between the way God dispenses his gifts before the completion of the inspired writings and after their completion, accusing them of forcing a dichotomy between a “precanon God” and a “postcanon God.”"
- "These postcanon works share two qualities: anonymous or pseudepigraphic authorship and unsubstantiated or obviously false connections to Jesus or his family, apostles, patriarchs, or prophets."
- "This allows kaydee falls not only to give us a postcanon story—what happens to Amy and Rory after the episode?"
- "Rowling began making postcanon remarks in interviews that diversified characters at the center of the narrative."
- "At the time of writing, the most popular Hannibal fic, by a large margin, describes itself as "a post-canon Hannigram fix-it fic.""
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post-canon (alternative)