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What does Independency mean?

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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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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.
He sought to balance the independency of the local congregation with the need for a wider, visible unity.
It did not explicitly mention Presbyterianism and included some ambiguous formulations that left the door open to Independency.
A printed copy of this Declaration of Independency came accidentally to our hands a few days after the dispatch of the Mercury packet, and we have the honor to enclose it.
However, written from a Presbyterian perspective, it would be difficult to fully implement within independency.

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