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
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
This syncretistic religion has grown out of Brazil's ethnic mixture and unusual degree of miscegenation.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Gospel, at the time when it was proclaimed among the Jews, was not only law, but theology, and indeed syncretistic theology.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
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