syncretistic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- syncretistically adverb
Example Sentences
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Our conversation is sprawling, a wild syncretistic display of the RZA’s curiosities.
From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2020
Because they are syncretistic, they are careful to spend time in opposing camps, always opening lines of communication.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2017
No syncretistic one-world religion was in the making, the soft-spoken Cardinal noted, but believers in different creeds can seek "common ground" and "make each other welcome" in their houses of worship.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the syncretist "is an indication of the necessity of a Christian apologetic that will take seriously the new conditions that have emerged and the new context out of which the syncretistic question is asked."
From Time Magazine Archive
But we need no names here, as a syncretistic, ascetic Judaism could and did arise everywhere in Palestine and the Diaspora.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
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