Syncretist

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Syncretist \Syn"cre*tist\, n. [Cf. F. syncr['e]tiste.]
     One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are
     irreconcilably at variance; specifically (Eccl. Hist.), an
     adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the
     seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the
     Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman


     Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy
     in the Lutheran church.
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