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What is the noun for canonize?

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canon
  1. A generally accepted principle; a rule.
  2. A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
  3. The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
  4. A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
  5. A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
  6. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
  7. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
  8. A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
  9. A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
  10. (fandom) Those sources, especially including literary works, which are generally considered authoritative regarding a given fictional universe.
  11. (cooking) A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon.
  12. (printing, dated) A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
  13. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
  14. (billiards) A carom.
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  16. Examples:
    1. “A minority stockholder cannot appeal to any canon of fair play whereby he should be entitled to sit back and let the majority take all the risks and then claim his share of the profits.”
      “The votes of the majority would have determined the matter, had not some influential persons interfered, on the ground of its being forbidden by an ecclesiastical canon.”
      “I do recognize that religious canons are fixed forever and by political authorities, that they have oppressive power in that they police boundaries.”
canonization
  1. The final process or decree (following beatification) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
  2. The state of being canonized or sainted.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The canonization of the new cathedral was a grand ceremony attended by thousands of devotees.”
      “The canonization of the author's work was evident through the countless accolades and positive reviews it received.”
      “Solanus Casey is a textbook example of the traditional candidate for beatification and canonization.”
canonry
  1. The office of a canon; a benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
  2. Canons considered as a group.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “This chair is linked to a canonry in the ancient cathedral of Durham, and it was held earlier in the twentieth century by Michael Ramsey.”
      “Sometime during this period, Philips probably took holy orders, for in 1610 he was appointed to a canonry.”
      “It was following this that he gave up his canonry and distributed his wealth.”
canoness
  1. (dated) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The monastery functioned as a leprosarium and Juliana served there as a canoness until ousted during a conflict with townspeople.”
      “Hroswitha became a canoness and was allowed to leave the convent for outside visits.”
      “With another sign, he made the canoness understand that she and his father were to kiss his betrothed.”
canonicalization
canonicate
canonicity
  1. The degree to which something is canonical.
  2. Examples:
    1. “How they conceived of this source, I shall argue, determined the particular way in which, in their view, canonicity resisted translation.”
      “And of his conditions for canonicity, one was that the work had to be difficult in such a way that compelled effort from its reader.”
      “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.”
canonisation
  1. Alternative spelling of canonization
  2. Examples:
    1. “Once declared a holy person, the next step is beatification and finally canonisation.”
      “However, it will be a patronage not conferred by canonisation and not conferred by vox populi.”
      “With the canonisation of the Confessor in 1161, his regalia gained the status of holy relics, further increasing the veneration with which they were regarded.”
canonicalness
  1. The state or quality of being canonical.
canonicality
  1. The condition of being canonical
canonical
  1. (Roman Catholicism) The formal robes of a priest
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canon
  1. Alternative spelling of qanun
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A minority stockholder cannot appeal to any canon of fair play whereby he should be entitled to sit back and let the majority take all the risks and then claim his share of the profits.”
      “The votes of the majority would have determined the matter, had not some influential persons interfered, on the ground of its being forbidden by an ecclesiastical canon.”
      “I do recognize that religious canons are fixed forever and by political authorities, that they have oppressive power in that they police boundaries.”
canonship
  1. The rank or office of canon.
canonicals
  1. plural of canonical
  2. The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “I had seen him in procession with his golden crook, preceded by the priests of his diocese, dressed up in all the tawdry of their canonicals.”
      “Immediately opposite was a grotesque figure of Satan, no doubt in canonicals also, with cloven foot and horns, belching out fire and brimstone on the terrified audience.”
      “With them their wives and children had been shown, all greatly impressed by the canonicals.”
canonicalizations
  1. plural of canonicalization
canonisations
  1. plural of canonisation
canonizations
canonicates
canonicities
  1. plural of canonicity
canonships
  1. plural of canonship
canonesses
  1. plural of canoness
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  3. Examples:
    1. “By 1216 there were approximately 700 houses and some 13,000 monks, nuns, canons, and canonesses.”
      “In Scotland there were a dozen or so nunneries, mainly Cistercian, and in Ireland about ten of the 140 monasteries were nunneries, all of them for regular canonesses.”
      “The Renaissance stalls, dating from 1566, comprise 32 seats in oak for the canonesses that attended the religious services in the women's choir.”
canonries
canons
  1. plural of canon
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The queen of the skies taxied onto the apron at Ringway through a welcoming arch of water canons blasted from a pair of airport fire engines.”
      “In the arts, literary and artistic canons are no longer restricted to the work of men.”
      “This raises the question of the appropriateness of conventional Western aesthetic canons to Kanak art.”
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