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• independency
  independency

  noun

  independence.
• Independency
  Independency

  noun

  (esp in the Congregational Church) the principle upholding the independence of each local church or congregation

independency

American  

[in-di-pen-duhn-see] / ˌɪn dɪˈpɛn dən si /

noun

• independencies
  plural

1. independence.

2. a territory not under the control of any other power.

3. (initial capital letter)

   1. the principle that the individual congregation or church is an autonomous and equalitarian society free from any external ecclesiastical control.

   2. the polity based on this principle.

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independency ¹ British  

/ ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənsɪ /

noun

1. a territory or state free from the control of any other power

2. another word for independence

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Independency ² British  

/ ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənsɪ /

noun

1. (esp in the Congregational Church) the principle upholding the independence of each local church or congregation

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• independencies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of independency

First recorded in 1605–15; independ(ent) + -ency

Example Sentences

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independency Independency independencies

"This is the idea of helping people to obtain independency and the skills they need," she told senators.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2018

The Supplementary Figures give experimental results regarding the independency of the absorption with respect to the polarization or the incidence angle.

From Nature ● Dec. 11, 2012

North Carolina broke the dam when its Provincial Congress empowered its delegates in Philadelphia "to concur with the delegates of the other colonies in declaring independency."

From Time Magazine Archive

It will also shrink to 50 the number of U.S. cities with independency owned, editorially competitive dailies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although he once had been for “the independency of the Colonies,” Bancroft decided that he would tell British intelligence “all the information in my power.”

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen

Is there no way of trading back this step of Independency, and opening the door to a full discussion?”

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2010

The power of Independency was not in relation to theology, but to Church government.

From Lectures on Modern history by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton

There he inclined to Independency, and through the pressure put on the Dutch by the English government, found it advisable to sail for Boston, where he arrived in October 1635.

From State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) by Sir Harry Lushington Stephen

About twenty years after her accession, the principles of Independency were openly taught by Robert Brown, a relative of Cecil, the Lord Treasurer. 

From The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

In New England the Independent Congregational Churches had an established legal maintenance; whilst that country continued part of the British empire, no argument in favor of Independency was adduced from the practice of New England.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

They are well paid, as they deserve to be, for the trying work they have to go through; and many of them have recently returned to their native country with comfortable, if not ample independencies.

From Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. by G. F. Davidson

I spent much labor upon this defaulting portion of Æsop's body of sovereign independencies, which threatened the greatest difficulties.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various

But, oh, Lucy, it is giving up little things, little independencies of thought, little daily habits, which I can't do.

From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Olive Higgins Prouty

And the most serious problem is to make a nation of independent kings who shall not exercise their independencies "perversely or irresponsibly."

From The French in the Heart of America by John Finley