Modern English is a syncretic language. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The score is also unified by using a minimalist technique, resulting in what Martynov calls syncretic minimalism. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Rigorous believers may have a tendency to find "syncretic" what is inculturated from their own traditions. From Wordnik.com. [The Western Confucian] Reference
Taiwan is also host to dozens of small syncretic religious cults. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
Religions: Buddhism and Confucianism, some Christianity and syncretic. From Wordnik.com. [The 1995 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Beni dance associations were a syncretic mix of African dance and European marching bands. From Wordnik.com. [f. Southern Africa] Reference
They even revive the dream of a syncretic and esoteric doctrine, with Platonism as a gospel. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Maybe most importantly I think it helps to have some idea what you are being syncretic with. From Wordnik.com. [Escaping the Binaries of Meiji Modernity] Reference
Moreover, the syncretic tendencies of Egypt responded admirably to those that began to obtain at. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
Kimbanguist - with small minorities of Muslims (10 percent), syncretic sects and indigenous beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
For several centuries, the Khmer empire practiced a syncretic faith that combined Buddhism and Hinduism. From Wordnik.com. [Cambodian History Writ Large] Reference
The Jodhaa Akbar controversy distorts the glorious legacy of Rajput-Mughal syncretic culture, | GroundReport. From Wordnik.com. [The Jodhaa Akbar controversy distorts the glorious legacy of Rajput-Mughal syncretic culture,] Reference
All religions are syncretic, drawing on the traditions that preceded them, but Buddhism is most inclusive of all. From Wordnik.com. [Glorious Golden Pagoda] Reference
Philo offered a syncretic theology that attempted to blend Hebrew tradition and Greek philosophy, faith and reason. From Wordnik.com. [Can Science Explain Religion?] Reference
The Jodhaa Akbar controversy distorts the glorious legacy of Rajput-Mughal syncretic culture, by Malik Muhammad Arif. From Wordnik.com. [The Jodhaa Akbar controversy distorts the glorious legacy of Rajput-Mughal syncretic culture,] Reference
In both cases the imagination is eclectic, syncretic, cosmopolitan, though deeply rooted in one place, one language. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
Sitaram Yechury's HT: April 12, 2007 advocacy for "syncretic evolution" stops short at the sayings of Swami Vivekananda. From Wordnik.com. [When will our Maxists grow up?] Reference
Unlike Ficino and Pico, who were syncretic and irenic in spirit, arguing that in the end all philosophies are in agreement. From Wordnik.com. [Loss of Faith] Reference
Medieval scholasticism attempted to bring into a syncretic harmony the many strains of thought that had gone into Christianity. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Nicholas was a ninja, but he was also tanjian, a hereditary member of a syncretic psychic discipline far older than any martial art. From Wordnik.com. [Floating City]
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