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What does Independency mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Independency? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (ecclesiastical history) The principle that each individual religious congregation is free from any external ecclesiastical control, as by a bishop.
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It did not explicitly mention Presbyterianism and included some ambiguous formulations that left the door open to Independency.
However, written from a Presbyterian perspective, it would be difficult to fully implement within independency.
His parents had given the car to him for his 16th birthday, it was a very expensive present, but he told them he'd eventually pay them back due to independency.
The ranks of nonconformity thrived in an expanding economy of independency where the artisan might still feel closer to the petty capitalist than to the unskilled labourer.
The operative semantic is copulative, a linking of isolated units still preserving their molecular independency.
Independency and Republicanism were on one side, Presbyterianism and limited monarchy on the other.

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