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apocrypha
plural noun
- any writings, anecdotes, etc., of doubtful authenticity or authorship
- fourteen books of the Septuagint that are rejected in Judaism and regarded by Protestants as not canonical: eleven of them are fully accepted in the Roman Catholic canon
- various writings falsely attributed to Biblical characters or kept out of the New Testament because not accepted as resulting from revelation
See apocrypha in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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