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Ingratiate vs Conflate - What's the difference?

ingratiate | conflate |

As verbs the difference between ingratiate and conflate

is that ingratiate is (reflexive) to bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please him or her 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.

ingratiate

English

Verb

  • (reflexive) To bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please him or her.
  • * 1849 , , Shirley , ch. 15:
    • [H]e considered this offering an homage to his merits, and an attempt on the part of the heiress to ingratiate herself into his priceless affections.
  • * 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh , ch. 58:
    • [H]e would pat the children on the head when he saw them on the stairs, and ingratiate himself with them as far as he dared.
  • * 2007 July 9, , " Why Maliki Is Still Around," Time (retrieved 26 May 2014):
    • He ingratiated himself with the Kurdish bloc when he stood up to aggressive Turkish rhetoric about the Kurdish border in May.
  • To recommend; to render easy or agreeable.
  • * , "Sermon XIII" in Miscellaneous Theological Works of Henry Hammond, Volume 3 (1850 edition), p. 283 (Google preview):
    • What difficulty would it [the love of Christ] not ingratiate to us?

    Related terms

    * ingratiating (adjective) * ingratiation (noun)

    conflate

    English

    Verb

    (conflat)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (to bring together) fuse, meld * (mix together) mix, blend, coalesce, commingle, flux, immix, merge

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
  • * 1999 , Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint :
    • Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.

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