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- noun Plural form of
canonist .
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Examples
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The clause inserted by the canonists was a mere legal fiction, which did not change matters
The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church 1888
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I certainly grant that canonists say and canon law may intend us to accept that someone who on his deathbed receives communion, leads prayers, and talks with priests, does things we must count as "signs of repentance" for the purpose of permitting this man who was at least at one point a manifest sinner to have a church funeral.
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The canonists ask, as directed by the Legislator, whether he gave a sign of repentance.
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I wonder if any of the canonists who lurk here can shed light on that process.
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We have certain activities that canonists use as if the activities were signs of the thing when in fact they are indistinguishable, in the case I outline above, from non-signs of the thing.
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The canonists ask, as directed by the Legislator, whether he gave a sign of repentance.
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Many scholarly canonists offered justification of the violence at Béziers.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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So long as the canonists don't want to insist that in the case above the man's death bed activities tell us anything at all about whether he was repentant, I suppose we can leave the matter where it is.
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Many scholarly canonists offered justification of the violence at Béziers.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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The canonists ask, as directed by the Legislator, whether he gave a sign of repentance.
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