conflation

Example Sentences

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Conflation or mixture is utterly incapable of meeting the larger number of cases.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William

Omissions are now left to us, of which the greater specimens can hardly have been produced by Conflation.

From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Miller, Edward

If Conflation is so common, he might have produced a large number of references without working out more than was enough for illustration as patterns.

From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Miller, Edward

If therefore both expressions occur in one of the elements, the Conflation has been made beforehand, and a substitution then occurs instead of a conflation.

From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Miller, Edward

If his eight picked examples can be thus demolished, then surely the theory of Conflation must be utterly unsound.

From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Miller, Edward