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Calque of German Bekennende Kirche
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Today it means: A movement within German Protestantism during Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church. Full definition →
Calque of German Bekennende Kirche
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.