Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The blowing of two or more musical instruments together.
  • noun A melting or casting of metal.
  • noun In diplomatics: An inadvertent combination of two readings of the same passage, so as to produce a new reading different from either.
  • noun A reading which has thus originated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
  • noun a fusing together; merger of two or more things or ideas into one.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun countable A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
  • noun countable A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material of two or more texts into a single text.

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Examples

  • Semantics can often be a distraction, but in this case, the conflation is at least in part due to Behe's own voluntary participation in the Dover trial.

    Behe and Theistic Evolution 2007

  • I'm so irritated that this conflation is definitely going to happen again and the thread will go down the toilet.

    Just Past the Horizon: The male space is just better hidden | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • This type of conflation is pervasive in ID circuits.

    A Decade Spanning Single Exchange 2008

  • Unfortunately that conflation is common amongst those less versed in the relevant genres since the excusatory symbolic formulation, by nature, rips off the explicatory works, simulating authenticity by simply copying from the original.

    The Aesthetics of Fat Hal Duncan 2007

  • The conflation is of his own doing when they scratched out "Creator" throughout Of Pandas and People and replaced it with "Intelligent Designer".

    Behe and Theistic Evolution 2007

  • For one article after the next to bolster that conflation is so journalistically irresponsible that it is hard to put into words.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • Unfortunately that conflation is common amongst those less versed in the relevant genres since the excusatory symbolic formulation, by nature, rips off the explicatory works, simulating authenticity by simply copying from the original.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • The conflation is of his own doing when they scratched out "Creator" throughout Of Pandas and People and replaced it with "Intelligent Designer".

    Behe and Theistic Evolution 2007

  • For one article after the next to bolster that conflation is so journalistically irresponsible that it is hard to put into words.

    Easter Lemming Liberal News 2007

  • This conflation is really unfortunate, because I set the bar pretty low for someone to be a public intellectual.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Richard Nokes 2005

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  • Contrariwise, I like conflation. Not only do I find it useful, but I like my mental image of two inflated balloons being squished together as one. . .there is such a tension. . .can they survive?

    June 15, 2007

  • And, as I suspected, this word goes way back with the English language to late Middle English (according to Random House). Why let the usurpers usurp?

    June 15, 2007