The Canadian dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford, who was one of three women who initiated an application in the Ontario Superior Court seeking invalidation of Canada's laws regarding brothels, sought to differentiate for clarity her occupation as a dominatrix rather than a prostitute to the media, due to frequent misunderstanding and conflation by the public of the two terms.

In practice it is reduced from Lyell's conflation to simply the two philosophical assumptions.

Boris Godunov has seldom been performed in either of the two forms left by the composer, frequently being subjected to cuts, recomposition, re-orchestration, transposition of scenes, conflation of the original and revised versions, or translation into another language.

W. Atallah suggests that the later Hellenistic myth of Adonis represents the conflation of two independent traditions.

The distinctive nine-panelled compartmentalised ceiling is a conflation of two ceilings derived from The Queen's House at Greenwich and The Banqueting House at Whitehall, both designed by Inigo Jones and both Royal apartments.

The stone overmantels are a conflation of two designs by Inigo Jones and contain mythological paintings by Jean Baptiste Monnoyer ( 1636 – 99 ) and the Venetian painter Sebastiano Ricci who also carried out commissions at Burlington House in Piccadilly.

There was widespread conflation of the two in mediaeval tradition, but scholars have contested the traditional identification with the Welsh Saint Garmon, commemorated in the North Welsh placename Llanarmon.

Although microcredit is one of the aspects of microfinance, conflation of the two terms is endemic in public discourse.

The Apocynaceae is the result of a conflation of the two families.

However, Michael W. Holmes has pointed out that it is not certain " that Papias knew the story in precisely this form, inasmuch as it now appears that at least two independent stories about Jesus and a sinful woman circulated among Christians in the first two centuries of the church, so that the traditional form found in many New Testament manuscripts may well represent a conflation of two independent shorter, earlier versions of the incident.

* Williamson – a carpenter ( a conflation of two citizens mentioned in Holinshed )

Fair value, also called fair price ( in a commonplace conflation of the two distinct concepts ), is a concept used in accounting and economics, defined as a rational and unbiased estimate of the potential market price of a good, service, or asset, taking into account such objective factors as:

It is however unlikely given that the Indo-Iranian roots of the term are related to the Semitic ones and although — through conflation — Aredvi Sura Anahita ( so the full name ) inherited much from Ishtar-Inanna, the two are considered historically distinct.

Spelled Caladcholg, it is also associated with the more obscure Ulster hero Fergus mac Leda, suggesting a conflation of two legends.

The situation these account envisages appears to be the reign of two simultaneous lines of kings within Hördaland, perhaps historically true or perhaps arising from artificial conflation of different traditions — traditions perhaps of rulers who reigned over Hördaland at different times, if they ever reigned at all.

Others, however, argue that, since both ( or all ) parts already exist in the English lexicon, such mixing is merely the conflation of two ( or more ) English morphemes in order to create an English neologism ( new word ), and so is appropriate.

However, if the distinctions between the two concepts appear to be superficial, intentional conflation may be desirable for the sake of conciseness and recall.

But conflation of these two different concepts leads to the notion that all ideological ideas, for example, should be treated with respect, rather than just the right to hold these ideas.

Deliberate Idiom conflation is the amalgamation of two different expressions.

Of course, " look who's calling the kettle black " does not directly imply anything, yet the implication is understood because the conflation clearly refers to two known idioms.

An illustrative conflation brings together two Roman Catholic saints named Lazarus.

By blending the identity of the two conflated St. Lazarus individuals with the identity of the Babalu Aye, Santería has gone one step further than the conflation within Catholicism, to become the kind of religious conflation known as syncretism, in which deities or concepts from two different faiths are conflated to form a third.

Sumeria had a base-60 system with a decimal subbase ( perhaps a conflation of the decimal and a duodecimal systems of its constituent peoples ), which was the origin of the numbering of modern degrees, minutes, and seconds.

This arrangement can lead to conflation between the otherwise distinct terms " deuterocanonical " and " apocryphal ".

A smear campaign, smear tactic or simply smear is a metaphor for activity that can harm an individual or group's reputation by conflation with a stigmatized group.

A " smear campaign ", " smear tactic " or simply " smear " is a metaphor for activity that can harm an individual or group's reputation by conflation with a stigmatized group.

The elasticity of verb meaning in English can be illustrated by instances in which a conflation of motion is merged with manner or a conflation of causation with manner, e. g. The bride floated towards her future.

The Kebra Nagast is divided into 117 chapters, and, even after a single reading, one can see that it is clearly a composite work ; Ullendorff describes its narrative " a gigantic conflation of legendary cycles.

Another example of this conflation can be found in Romanesque iconography carved on portals in Burgundy and Provence.

This can take the form of autonomy being denied to agency with causal efficacy only granted to structure ( downwards conflation ).

Alternatively it can take the form of autonomy being denied to structure with causal efficacy only granted to agency ( upwards conflation ).

Because the calculated osmol gap can therefore be a conflation of both terms ( depending on how it is derived ), neither term ( osmolal gap nor osmolar gap ) may be semantically correct.

" He, too, is from Padua, and his name is Baptista Minola, which Oxfordians take to be a conflation of Baptista Nigrone and Pasquino Spinola.

This tradition comes from her conflation with the very old chthonic divinity Despoina ( the mistress ), whose real name could not be revealed to anyone except those initiated to her mysteries.

A dominant principle of Tropicália was antropofagia, a type of cultural cannibalism that encouraged the conflation of disparate influences, out of which could be created something unique.

This might be a conflation of Lamia with the sea goddess Ceto, traditionally Phorcys's wife and mother of Scylla.

Geoffrey's legendary Keredic may have been a conflation of Cerdic, the traditional founder of Wessex, who, despite his political affiliation with the Saxons, was likely to be half-British himself, and another Cerdic, who reigned over the Celtic kingdom of Elmet around present-day Leeds until his defeat at the hands of Edwin of Northumbria.

Such a conflation would encourage the roles played by Geirthjóf and Fridthjóf to be assigned to Jösur and Hjör who in this chronology would become Víkar's contemporaries.

However, this tradition might be due to a conflation with his famous namesake, Lucian of Samosata, the pagan satirist of the second century.

This is thought to be a conflation of two coaching inns in or near Greta Bridge.

Virtual reality is referred to as " oneirochronon " ( a conflation of Greek words meaning dreamtime ); the nearest thing to the oneirochronon experience as of 2009 would be Second Life.

There may be some conflation with St Baldred, who is connected with the nearby Bass Rock, and St Baldred's Boat off Dunbar.

This may be a conflation with Mousa ( properly Mosey ), since it comes close to a mention of " Moseyjarborg " ( the Broch of Mousa ), or a mistranscription of " Maey " in the old script.

The text seems to be a conflation of a " Gregorian " benedictional which was derived from the supplement by St Benedict of Aniane to the so-called Hadrianum, a sacramentary from Rome that had been in papal use, and an 8th century Gallican text.

A one bit DAC may be expected to produce a step and so must be a conflation of an impulse and an integration.