Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Independence.
- n. An independent territory or state.
- n. The Independent movement in 17th-century England.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Independence.
- n. 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. Independency is distinguished from Episcopacy by having no gradation of ministerial or clerical orders, and no officials superior to the laity and invested with administrative or judicial authority; and from Presbyterianism by having no gradation of courts or representative bodies possessed of legislative and judicial functions. (See
Independent , n., and Congregationalism.) In its extreme form it is the absolute freedom of the local church from external control of any kind. Alsoindependentism .
Wiktionary
- n. Independence.
- n. An independent territory or state.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Independence.
- n. (Eccl.) Doctrine and polity of the Independents.
WordNet 3.0
- n. freedom from control or influence of another or others
Etymologies
- independent + -cy (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Armstrong (Armstrong 1997) works with a different notion of independency, which we may call independency*.”
“You know by what snatches of time I write, that I may not neglect that, and that I may preserve that independency which is the comfort of my life.”
“Convention taken on every question under the idea of independency? ”
“Teaching your children skills of independency and working as a team will benefit everyone in the end.”
The Huffington Post: Lisa Copen: Organizing Children's Morning Routines When You're Ill
“The overcoming of a break up is an important step to autonomy and independency.”
“Good that central banks are protect through their independency from such populist bullshit.”
“They might claim independency but when the parade begins they will be in formation AND in LOCKSTEP as they've been trained.”
“But wait, up in the sky, it's a bird, a plane, no it's the magic cloak of independency.”
The Huffington Post: Mitchell Ceasar: The Curious Case of Charlie Crist
“Finally, his list of amendments included an assertion “that the sovereignty, freedom, and independency of the several states shall be retained, and every power, jurisdiction and right which is not by this Constitution expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled.””
“Him independency in this sense makes him the best choice for president in my opinion, but he needs to spend some extra money for bodyguards. jimmy velman”
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