Sekirov Dictionary

conflate

/kənˈfleɪt/

verb 3
adjective 1
noun 1
forms 3

verb3

To combine or mix together.
•
To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
- “Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.”
•
To deliberately draw a false equivalence or association, typically in a tacit or implicit manner as propaganda and/or an intentional distortion or misrepresentation of the subject matter.
- But in reality, the order simply furthers the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies by continuing to conflate immigration issues with criminal ones. — 2018

adjective1

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Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
- Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture. — 1999

noun1

A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.

forms

conflated · conflating · conflates

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