canonical text
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the authoritative or standard version of a text
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- Scholars often debate which version of Hamlet should be considered the canonical text.
- The council met to determine the canonical text of the scriptures.
- For our analysis, we will only use the canonical text of the epic poem.
- Establishing a canonical text is the first step in creating any critical edition.
- Many apocryphal gospels exist, but only four are part of the canonical text of the New Testament.
- The director's cut is now seen by many fans as the canonical text of the film.
- Scribes in the monastery worked meticulously to preserve the canonical text without error.
- The final draft approved by the committee became the canonical text of the new constitution.
- This edition includes several variations from the canonical text, which are detailed in the footnotes.
- After years of research, the professor published what she believed to be the definitive canonical text.