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syncretistic

American  
[sing-kri-tist-ik] / ˌsɪŋ krɪˈtɪst ɪk /

adjective

  1. tending toward or characterized by syncretism.


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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

This syncretistic religion has grown out of Brazil's ethnic mixture and unusual degree of miscegenation.

From Time Magazine Archive

She gingerly hopes that a deistic, syncretistic "perennial philosophy" may fill the gap.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Pseudo-Clementines may, to some extent, be used, though with caution, in determining the doctrines of syncretistic Jewish Christianity.

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan

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