Meaning conflate
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conflate


1540s, from Latin conflat-, past participle stem of conflare "to blow up, kindle, light; bring together, compose," also "to melt together," literally "to blow together," [..]
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conflate


(v) mix together different elements
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conflate


To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity. To mix together different elements. To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to treat (them) as equivalent.
Source: en.wiktionary.org

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conflate


lang=en type=book |year=1882 |title=The New Testament in the Original Greek |author=Brooke Foss Westcott |text=If a reading is conflate, every document supporting it is thereby shown to have ... About [..]
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