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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

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

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

On the sect of Levellers, see Walker, History of the Independency, II, 152.

From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)

An opponent of church government in any form, he was no friend to the rigid and tyrannical Presbyterianism of the day, and inclined to Independency and Cromwell’s party.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various

Originally a Presbyterian, he passed over to Independency.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

The following instance of extravagance is given by Walker, in his History of Independency, part ii. p.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David

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 Finley, John

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 Prouty, Olive Higgins

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 Davidson, G. F.

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