precanon

English

Alternative forms

  • pre-canon

Etymology

From pre- +‎ canon.

Adjective

precanon (not comparable)

  1. (religion) Predating the development of a religious canon.
    Synonym: precanonical
    Antonyms: postcanonical, postcanon
    • 1980, John Williams, The Holy Spirit: Lord and Life-giver‎[1], page 92:
      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).
    • 1995, D. A. Carson, Showing the Spirit: A Theological Exposition of 1 Corinthians 12-14‎[2], page 69:
      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.”
    • 2006, Matthew T. Dickerson, David O'Hara, From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook on Myth and Fantasy‎[3], page 105:
      It is more like the precanon scriptures in the very early church: authoritative, but subject to additions as other texts were written.
  2. (chiefly fandom slang) Set before the main or accepted canonical chronology of a fictional universe.
    Antonym: postcanon
    • 2013, Austin Grossman, You‎[4], page 139:
      “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.”
    • 2022, Kristine Larsen, “Nailing Jell-O to the Wall: Canonicity in Middle-earth”, in Journal of Tolkien Research‎[5], volume 15, number 1, page 4:
      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."
    • 2024, Jimena Benites-Aquino, Arnau Gifreu-Castells, Yasmin Sayan-Casquino, “The Representation of Autistic Characters in the Fanfictions of 'The Owl House'”, in Paulo Carlos López-López, Daniel Barreda Ibáñez, Mónica López Golán, Alberto Mejía Manrique, editors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies 2024 (ICOMTA 2024)‎[6], page 204:
      In Hunter's case, the stories varied between canon, pre-canon, and post-canon events.
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