Canonicity

This article aims to distinguish them and address their connective canonicity with the core series.

Catholics and Orthodox sometimes avoid using the term in contexts where it might be disputatious or be misconstrued as yielding on the point of canonicity.

To Waid's disappointment, however, the canonicity of the series was eventually discredited by stories that followed it.

Whichever implied meaning is intended, Apocrypha was (and is) used primarily by Protestants, in reference to the books of questioned canonicity.