All 3 Uses of
canon
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- Six was the rigid, the canonical supper-hour, but at half-past six he had not come.†
Chpt 15 *
- They were in shirt sleeves; smoking, chewing, spitting incessantly; lowering their voices for a moment so that she did not hear what they said and afterward giggling hoarsely; using over and over the canonical phrases: "Three to dole,"†
Chpt 24
- She cried to the party, with the canonical amount of sprightliness, "Good-by, everybody.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(canon as in: a canonical requirement) an official or established rule or principle; or a collection of such rules or principles (often in reference to rules or principles of a church)editor's notes: Historically, a canon was a church law.