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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

Independence.

“Give me,” I cried (enough for me),
“My bread, and

independency

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Pope.

(Eccl.)

Doctrine and polity of the Independents.

See also: independency

Independency

(ecclesiastical history) The principle that each individual religious congregation is from any external ecclesiastical control, as by a bishop.

See also: Independency

independency ‎(plural independencies)

Independence.
- 1776 August 11, William Howe and Richard Howe, letter sent from North America to Europe with a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence:
  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.
An independent territory or state.