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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

anticanonical en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + canonical.

Meanings

  1. Opposing or challenging a canon.
    • When critical reading is established as a global language of value, such maneuvers become necessary to rescue texts for any canon, even the anticanonical canon. 2012, Jane Gallop, Polemic: Critical or Uncritical, page 32:
  2. (not-comparable) Of or relating to the inverse bundle corresponding to a canonical bundle.

Forms

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more anticanonical Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most anticanonical Degree=Sup lexicographic