conflation

Updated: May 2, 2025

The ambassador, in turn, permitted this MS. to be printed by one Frambotti, a printer endowed with more industry than critical acumen, and the resultant textual conflation had much to do with the pamphlet war which followed.

Petronius Arbiter - The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction

But both he and Gibson made the fatal error of trying to combine the disparate materials contained in the various chronicles in a single text. There is still, however, too much conflation, and owing to the plan of the volume, the edition only extends to 1066. A translation is appended. In 1861 appeared Benjamin Thorpe's six-text edition in the Rolls Series.

Various - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1