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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

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Nevertheless, amid all this apparent prevalence of Presbyterianism, there was a stubborn tradition in England of another set of antiprelatic views, long stigmatized by the nickname of Brownism, but known latterly as Independency or Congregationalism.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson

The Scots had no sympathy with English republicanism, and they were alarmed by the growth of Independency in England.

From An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) by Robert S. Rait

Such was Independency when it flourished all over East Anglia.

From East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

The discourse was highly prized by the Mayor and most of the better class, who conceived that their minister had struck a heavy blow at the very root of Independency.

From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Sir Walter Scott

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

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

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