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Canonization is the official act of saying that a dead person is a saint. In the Catholic Church this is a long, careful process, not a quick compliment. After it, people may call that person Saint, and some believers pray to them. The word is a noun: it names the act or the event. The verb is . Writers also stretch it: the canonization of a novelist or a film can mean treating that work as a perfect classic that nobody may criticise. That stretch is real, but the church meaning is the home meaning. This has nothing to do with a cannon, the big gun — they only sound alike.
封聖、列入聖品
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
canonizationnoun
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ChristianityThe final process or decree (following beatification) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
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The state of being canonized or sainted.
- Following the attribution of two miracles, the next step is for the Pope to convene a meeting of cardinals to agree on Acutis’ sainthood and decide on a date for the canonization.
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Introduction into a canon of artistic or literary works.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。