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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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I don't see how you could lay out part of your independency to more advantage.
He sought to balance the independency of the local congregation with the need for a wider, visible unity.
However, written from a Presbyterian perspective, it would be difficult to fully implement within independency.
The operative semantic is copulative, a linking of isolated units still preserving their molecular independency.
Behold us now at the close of the ten years, and we have realized an 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.

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