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Syncretism

noun

The union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy).

The fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections).

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"Syncretism" Quotes from Famous Books

... the dramas than in the satires. The love scenes of the Hebrew dramatists are pure to coldness. These dramas began to flourish in the eighteenth century; Luzzatto was by no means an unworthy imitator of Guarini. Sometimes the syncretism of ideas in Hebrew plays is sufficiently grotesque. Samuel Romanelli, who wrote in Italy at the era of the French Revolution, boldly introduces Greek mythology. It may be that in the Spanish period Hebrew poets introduced ...

— The Book of Delight and Other Papers • Israel Abrahams

Words linked to "Syncretism" : syncretic, syncretistic, syncretical, union, unification, syncretistical, fusion, syncretize