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What does canonicity mean?

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Noun
  1. The degree to which something is canonical.
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There was no question of its canonicity till the time of Jerome, who termed it a pseudepigraph.
Since canonicity could be adjudged only by these effects, no translator could reliably instruct readers on why the work under translation could be deemed important.
What does it mean to canonize a previously marginal playwright whose works we find valuable because, among other things, they call into question the notion of canonicity?
First, on the score of canonicity, it demonstrates how the work of canon-making is a volatile venture explicitly committed to the business of national culture.
This author's view, then, for and against the canonicity looks somewhat undecided.
How they conceived of this source, I shall argue, determined the particular way in which, in their view, canonicity resisted translation.

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