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  • adjective of or characterized by syncretism
  • adjective relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections

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Examples

  • Asia Minor was then the theatre of a strange movement of syncretical philosophy; all the germs of Gnosticism existed there already.

    The Life of Jesus Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1863

  • Asia Minor was then the theatre of a strange movement of syncretical philosophy; all the germs of Gnosticism existed there already.

    The Life of Jesus Ernest Renan 1857

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