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- proper noun ecclesiastical history The principle that each individual religious
congregation is from any external ecclesiastical control, as by a bishop.
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Examples
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With respect to the theory of church government called Independency or
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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This tendency of the new Puritanism, which we may call Independency, was a development of the old, purely scriptural,
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For he had passed on into an Independency, if it could be called "Independency," more extreme than theirs, and resembling rather the vague Independency that Cromwell represented, and that was rife in the Army.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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Though he found them among the Baptists, therefore, he may be said to have recovered them for Independency at large, and to have been the first to impregnate modern "Independency" with them through and through.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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"Independency" had come to have a much larger meaning than that in which it had originated.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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Every body see it in the same light and it will bring us all to one way of thinking, so that you may soon expect to hear of new governments in every colony and in conclusion a declaration of Independency by Congress.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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John Adams termed it an Act of Independency, for King, Lords and Commons have united in sundering this country and that I think forever.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Every body see it in the same light and it will bring us all to one way of thinking, so that you may soon expect to hear of new governments in every colony and in conclusion a declaration of Independency by Congress.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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John Adams termed it an Act of Independency, for King, Lords and Commons have united in sundering this country and that I think forever.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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But it was two days later that those gathered in defiance to the King declared a “Declaration of Independency” thereby adopting the famed document that carefully delineated the natural rights by which they claimed independence followed by a list of grievances that would explain why they invoked those rights.
Let’s Not Celebrate July 4th - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009
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