Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or characterized by syncretism.
- Pertaining to the syncretists: as, the syncretistic controversy (a bitter controversy in the Lutheran Church, in the seventeenth century, regarding the tenets of the syncretists).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Syncretists.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to a
historical tendency for alanguage (such asEnglish ) to reduce its use ofinflection . - adjective Relating to the
merging of twoideals ,organizations orlanguages into one.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections
- adjective of or characterized by syncretism
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Examples
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Taking yoga's popularity as exhibit A, the prominent Southern Baptist pundit Albert Mohler recently suggested that the United States was becoming crazily syncretistic.
Leigh E. Schmidt: The History Of Yoga And Religion In America Leigh E. Schmidt 2011
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Taking yoga's popularity as exhibit A, the prominent Southern Baptist pundit Albert Mohler recently suggested that the United States was becoming crazily syncretistic.
Leigh E. Schmidt: The History Of Yoga And Religion In America Leigh E. Schmidt 2011
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This is unnerving stuff, and predictably, we have some religious communities becoming more conformist, exclusive, and intolerant while others are becoming more diverse, inclusive, and syncretistic -- all this as mainstream religious institutions in America have dramatically weakened over the past two decades, according to all measures (affiliation, membership, and attendance).
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Racahel de Vienne 6:18 pm: religions are all syncretistic dang I hope I spelled that somewhere near correctly they all borrow from the same traditions, without exception.
Transcript: Writing Paganism and Non-Christian Religions « Coyote Con 2010
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This is unnerving stuff, and predictably, we have some religious communities becoming more conformist, exclusive, and intolerant while others are becoming more diverse, inclusive, and syncretistic -- all this as mainstream religious institutions in America have dramatically weakened over the past two decades, according to all measures (affiliation, membership, and attendance).
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On to this syncretistic notion of the holy messianic “Maiden” Frank grafted the kabbalistic conception of the female emanation of the godhead, the sefira Malkhut (Kingdom), which was traditionally associated with the messianic soul and was envisaged by the kabbalists as rising, at the time of the Redemption, from her lowest position in the hierarchy of the sefirot to its highest and most sublime point.
Sabbateanism. 2009
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So, in other words, El Presidente would feel right at home among the other syncretistic ne0-pagans that fill Catholic religious orders in the U.S. and Europe. . .
Archive 2009-01-18 2009
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Against centuries-old teachings, they have approved by majority vote abortion, contraception, same-sex marriage, sexual activity outside of marriage, divorce, female clergy, historical-critical-linguistic criticism of the Bible, syncretistic liturgies and on and on.
Archive 2009-01-04 2009
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His acceptance of Judaism seemed to have been syncretistic and cosmopolitan.
Herodian Women. 2009
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It could well reflect a certain syncretistic tendency that was inherent in the Sabbatean movement from the start, which may explain its extraordinary readiness to acknowledge the spiritual powers and prophetic inclinations of women.
Sabbateanism. 2009
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