Syn"cre*tism (?), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to make two parties join against a third: cf. F. syncrétisme.]
Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other.
He is plotting a carnal syncretism, and attempting the reconcilement of Christ and Belial.
Baxter.
Syncretism is opposed to eclecticism in philosophy.
Krauth-Fleming.
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Syn"cre*tism (?), n. (Philol.)
The union or fusion into one of two or more originally different inflectional forms, as of two cases.
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