| conflate \kuhn-FLAYT\ (transitive verb) - 1 : To bring together; to fuse together; to join or meld. 2 : To combine (as two readings of a text) into one whole.
"Sissy does conflate everything; it's a mark of her character and disposition, one that she will not rid herself of in all her lifetime. Gypsies and and ghosts, her mother and Vicki. What she cannot fully understand becomes a mass of threaded contradictions within her, dancing around in her mind until they form a lover's knot." -- Sandra Novack, 'Precious'
Conflate is from Latin conflatus, past participle of conflare, "to blow together; to put together," from con-, "with, together" + flare, "to blow." |
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