Meaning

(religion) Predating the development of a religious canon..

Definitions by Sense

1. (religion) Predating the development of a religious canon.
2. (chiefly fandom slang) Set before the main or accepted canonical chronology of a fictional universe.

Example Sentences

The gifts of apostle and prophet were evidently foundation gifts, particularly related to the precanon era of church history (see Ephesians 2:20 and Hebrews 2:4).

In one recent review, for instance, a charismatic scholar rather acidly mocks the position of those who want to make a distinction between the way God dispenses his gifts before the completion of the inspired writings and after their completion, accusing them of forcing a dichotomy between a “precanon God” and a “postcanon God.”

It is more like the precanon scriptures in the very early church: authoritative, but subject to additions as other texts were written.

“Well, supposedly RoGII: War in the Realms, as you know: But it’s precanon, right? More what I'd call a narrative possibility space bounded by the strategic parameters of the game.”

On the other hand, The Lord of the Rings Wiki classifies some works beyond their defined canon of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Ring, and The Silmarillion as "precanon" or "disputed canon."

In Hunter's case, the stories varied between canon, pre-canon, and post-canon events.

Word Forms

• pre-canon

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Use precanon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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