intradenominational

English

Etymology

From intra- +‎ denominational.

Adjective

intradenominational (not comparable)

1. Within a religious denomination.
   • 1882 December 1, Evangelical Christendom, page 373:

     The Evangelical Alliance has exercised an influence over those engaged in controversy, both intradenominational and interdenominational, on controversy within denominations as well as on controversy between denominations.

   • 1997, Harry S. Stout, New Directions in American Religious History, page 450:

     Historians, too, have been aware of the transdenominational nature of much religious activity in the United States and of the cross- and intradenominational nature of liberal, conservative, and fundamentalist movements.

   • 2009, Doug Frank, Less Than Conquerors: The Evangelical Quest for Power in the Early Twentieth Century:

     In 1894 the bishops drafted an address that brought to a head several decades of a very complex intradenominational struggle.

Derived terms

• intradenominationally