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Canonization

noun

(Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints. Synonym: canonisation.

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... always ready to bestow, in art if not in life, upon the Magdalen type. On the other hand, the ignoble traits of Queen Elizabeth are brought into the foreground and made the most of, while her great qualities are hardly more than adumbrated in the picture. The result is a canonization and a caricature; and one cannot help wondering how Schiller was brought thereto, when it would seem that his Protestant sympathies, as we have known him hitherto, should have led him ...

— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas

... usus loquendi which seems to be hopelessly imbedded in the English language applies the word "church" to each one of the several sects into which the church is divided. It is this corruption of language which leads to the canonization of schism as a ...

— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon

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