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Example sentences for: canons

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David also founded the Abbey of Holyrood and created several royal burghs (towns with special trading privileges), including Edinburgh and Canongate; the latter was under the jurisdiction of the monks, or “canons,” of Holyrood.
(As the quotation above indicates, the 1102 Canons were in Latin, thus not valid citation fodder for the OED .)
[Many words which have now fallen out of use will be reborn, and many now prominent will disappear, if usage, which owns the right to decide, and the law, and the canons of speech, so choose.]
However, I am not so ignorant of the canons of journalism (and of common sense) that I would take a plausible fellow like Brian Arthur at face value without checking up on him.
Long before the Information Age, man struggled to digest the mounds of words contained in his religious, cultural, and legal canons.