canonic

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On that subject, Ross is most persuasive in his close readings of canonic post-Wagnerian literature, particularly Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past,” Joyce’s “Ulysses,” Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves” and the novels of Mann.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2020

However, a parallel narrative universe exists that is the game’s “real” version of events: each Tekken game has a canon winner, and this canonic story focuses on the Mishima family blood feud.

From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2020

As the amps trailed behind him, the music echoed off the banks of the canal and nearby buildings, giving hints of canonic motion.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2018

In the classroom, I had learned to think of writing as canonic, penned by giants.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2016

In these archaic works the canonic form gives the whole a consistency and stability contrasting oddly with the dismal warfare between nascent harmonic principles and ancient anti-harmonic criteria which hopelessly wrecks them as regards euphony.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various