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deuterocanonical books

plural noun

  1. the books of the Bible regarded by the Roman Catholic Church as canonical but not universally acknowledged as such in the early church, including, in the Old Testament, most of the Protestant Apocrypha.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of deuterocanonical books1

First recorded in 1720–30; deutero- + canonical

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