Meaning of semicanonical | Babel Free

Definitions

Having a status approaching canonical.

not-comparable

Examples

“Based on some of the vast semicanonical narrative literature, we may note Ksemendra's collection of avadanas (qv) because the author was not a Buddhist [...]”

“Accorded a semicanonical status similar to that of the works of Bhai Gurdas, Nand Lal's Persian compositions (trans. Bawa 2006) are much simpler than the elaborately mannered Persian poetry favoured in the courtly circles [...]”

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