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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Independence.
  • noun An independent territory or state.
  • noun The Independent movement in 17th-century England.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Independence.
  • noun Eccles., the principle that the individual congregation or church is a society strictly voluntary and autonomous, standing directly under the authority of Jesus Christ, living in immediate dependence on him, and responsible to him alone for its beliefs and acts as a Christian society; specifically, the principles of the Independents or English Congregationalists, as distinguished from those of the Congregationalists of the United States.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Independence.
  • noun (Eccl.) Doctrine and polity of the Independents.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Independence.
  • noun An independent territory or state.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun freedom from control or influence of another or others

Etymologies

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independent +‎ -cy

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