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Webster 1913 Edition

Syncretist

Syn′cre-tist

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
syncrétiste
.]
One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance;
specifically
(Eccl. Hist.)
,
an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church.

Definition 2024

syncretist

syncretist

English

Noun

syncretist ‎(plural syncretists)

  1. One who attempts syncretism, the fusion of different systems or beliefs.
    • 2008 February 12, Ben Ratliff, “A Victory for Jazz, or Just Grammy Being Grammy?”, in New York Times:
      Both are syncretist collaborations between a flexible jazz musician and a famously uncompromising genius who invented his or her own style — two musicians of putatively different worlds.

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