Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

precanonical

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pre-canon-i-cal
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Prior to the development of a religious canon.

adj

In raw form, before conversion to a canonical form.

Example Sentences

"There was a Jesus-cult in precanonical times, when Abraham, Joseph, and Moses were demigods and had not been reduced to human dimensions."
"We also argue that the normalizability of precanonical wave functions with respect to the scalar product, which involves an operator-valued invariant measure on the space of spin connection coefficients, leads to the quantum avoidance of curvature singularities."

Etymology

From pre- + canonical.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pre

Synonyms

precanon

Questions

What does precanonical mean?: Prior to the development of a religious canon.
Where does precanonical come from?: From pre- + canonical.

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