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interconfessional

American  
[in-ter-kuhn-fesh-uh-nl] / ˌɪn tər kənˈfɛʃ ə nl /

adjective

  1. common to or occurring between churches having different confessions.


Etymology

Origin of interconfessional

First recorded in 1890–95; inter- + confessional

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The commonwealth was founded in good faith on principles of mutual good will with the Indians and tender regard for Indian rights, of religious liberty and interconfessional amity, and of a permanent peace policy.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

The interconfessional divisions of the body ecclesiastic were about to prove themselves a more effectual bar to union than the political and territorial divisions of the body politic.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

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