Corroborate vs Conflate - What's the difference?
corroborate | conflate |
To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
* I. Taylor
To make strong; to strengthen.
* I. Watts
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.
(biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
* 1999 , Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint :
(biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.
As verbs the difference between corroborate and conflate
is that corroborate is to confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for while conflate is to bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.As an adjective conflate is
(biblical criticism) combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.As a noun conflate is
(biblical criticism) a conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.corroborate
English
Verb
(corroborat)- The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth.
- As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby.
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* * * ----conflate
English
Verb
(conflat)Synonyms
* (to bring together) fuse, meld * (mix together) mix, blend, coalesce, commingle, flux, immix, mergeAdjective
(-)- Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.