syncretistic
Americanadjective
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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
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
Gnosticism is a generic name for a vast number of syncretistic religious systems prevalent, especially in the East, both before and after the Christian era.
From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen
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