Syncretic

Word SYNCRETIC
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Hyphenation syn cret ic
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Anthropology: Observation and study without reference to a historical context, often of a particular ethnic group. Urban Dictionary

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The word "syncretic" in example sentences

And while the system of grace known as syncretic has endeavoured to harmonize the principles of Thomism and Molinism, it has served but to double the difficulties instead of eliminating them. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Comte may be described as a syncretic, who, like the Gnostics of early Church history, attempted to combine the substance of imperfectly comprehended contemporary science with the form of Roman Christianity. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

Her work might also be described as "syncretic," although its spiritualism is somewhat submerged, since religion was not a hot topic in postmodernism. ❋ By MARTHA SCHWENDENER (2011)

Custer has written what might be called a syncretic pop-culture myth, with a knowing eye for the different Biblical Nativity accounts read Matthew and Luke sometime. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The score is also unified by using a minimalist technique, resulting in what Martynov calls syncretic minimalism.

SANNEH: Yes and there was something kind of syncretic about the way he worked, about the way he pulled bits and pieces of threads from different things and it sometimes -- sometimes made him seem like someone who was still in the process of creating himself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

True, that Christianity is “bastardized”; the term of art is syncretic, that is, it has accreted, accumulated bits and pieces of other religions as it has spread through different cultures and around the world; it’s also changed as its practioners have introduced new, and not necessarily improved, ideas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rigorous believers may have a tendency to find "syncretic" what is inculturated from their own traditions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mexico, like the U.S. and Canada, have always been syncretic cultures ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Old oppositions like "Chinese classical art" and "Chinese modern and contemporary art" make less and less sense as the boundaries between the two become more and more porous, more and more fused and syncretic. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

I want a syncretic approach similar to the presentation in The World Ends With You where the full game was story driven, but presented in an episodic manner with prompts about the story so far if you simply waited after loading the game. ❋ SVGL (2009)

An [example] [would go] here if I could think of a [good one]. ❋ Tyra_Nid (2004)

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