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noun

Syncretism n.

Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other. "He is plotting a carnal syncretism, and attempting the reconcilement of Christ and Belial." "Syncretism is opposed to eclecticism in philosophy."

(Philol.) The union or fusion into one of two or more originally different inflectional forms, as of two cases.

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Etymology of 'Syncretism'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Syncretism" Quotes from Famous Books

... all morality. If it be an avowed antagonist to Christianity, it is not less hostile to Natural Theology and to Ethical Science. It consecrates error and vice, as being, equally with truth and virtue, necessary and beneficial manifestations of the "infinite." It is a system of Syncretism, founded on the idea that error is only an incomplete truth, and maintaining that truth must necessarily be developed by error, and virtue by vice. According to this fundamental law of "human progress," Atheism itself may be providential; and ...

— Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws • James Buchanan

Words linked to "Syncretism" : unification, syncretistical, syncretize, fusion