(biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
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(biblical criticism) A conflate text.
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Origin of conflate
Latin cōnflārecōnflāt-com-com-flāreto blowbhlē- in Indo-European roots
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American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
1541: from Latincōnflātus, from cōnflō (“fuse, melt, or blow together”); cōn (“with, together”) + flō (“blow”).
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Wiktionary
Conflate Sentence Examples
It is vital that we do not conflate today with tomorrow.
To conflate the two is to commit a category mistake (Ryle, 1949 ).
The concern of the essays in Featherstone's volume is to disentangle the various threads that such questions invariably conflate.
But you also conflate two sense of " reality " .
They conflate pleasurable responses of a sexually titillating nature and other agreeably sensuous pleasures with the pleasurable response evoked by beauty.