independencyn.
/ɪndɪˈpɛndənsi/ 1.
a. = independence n. 1a. Now rare.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [noun]
absoluteness1605
independency1611
independence1641
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Independenza, independencie.
1645 H. Marten (title) The Independency of England Maintained against the Scottish Commissioners.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iii. 12 The independency of their causes, and contingency in their events. View more context for this quotation
1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. v. 55 The independency of that kingdome.
a1670 G. Rust Disc. Truth (1682) 185 Then will God be determined in his actions from something without himself, which is to take away his independency and self-sufficiency.
1738 A. Pope 7th Epist. 1st Bk. Horace in Wks. II. ii. 70 Give me, I cry'd, (enough for me) My Bread, and Independency!
1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 25 Mar. (1932) (modernized text) III. 1126 The Seven United Provinces, whose independency was first allowed by Spain at the Treaty of Munster.
1775 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 66 Suspicions entertained of designs of independency; an American republic.
1790 T. Bewick Hist. Quadrupeds (1807) 1 The wild and extensive plains..where he [the horse] ranges without controul, in a state of entire independency.
1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm (1867) iii. 55 Reason as well as faith..demands that we deny independency to whatever is created.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Feb. 8/2 Urged to maintain the independency of Zulu territory.
b. Const. on, upon, of, rarely from.
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1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 450 In an extasie there is alienation and independencie of the spirit vpon the sences.
1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis 63 The freenesse of Gods Election, and its in-dependancy on faith.
1642 G. Eglisham Fore-runner of Revenge (new ed.) 2 In regard..of my independancy from the accused.
1669 S. Pepys Diary 4 Jan. (1976) IX. 408 In opposition, or at least independency, on the Duke of York.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 256 A desirable degree of independency on British and other foreign manufactures.
1841–4 R. W. Emerson Ess. (1876) 1st Ser. ix. 217 Its independency of those limitations which circumscribe us on every hand.
2. That system of ecclesiastical polity in which each local congregation of believers is held to be a church independent of any external authority: = Congregationalism n. 1.The prevailing name in England, in the 17th century, for this form of church government, but not favoured in New England (see quot. 16481, and congregational adj. 3), and in modern use (other than historical) largely displaced by Congregationalism.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Congregationalist
Brownisma1617
independency1642
independentism1655
Congregationalism1716
1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. xvi. 82 That new-borne Bastard, Independency.
1648 J. Cotton Way Congregational Churches i. iii. 11 Nor is Independency a fit name of the way of our Churches. For in some respects it is too strait, and in others too large.
1648 C. Walker (title) The History of Independency.
1694 Provid. God 95 Those they then called Puritans..were divided about Church-Government, some for Presbytery and others for Independency.
1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. 107 His [Robinson's] peculiar sentiments of Church discipline, since known by the name of Independancy.
1872 G. H. Curteis Bampton Lect. ii. 41 The cradle in which Independency was nurtured was the Non-Conforming Puritanism of the sixteenth century.
3. concrete.
a. plural. Independent things; things unrelated to each other.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > non-relation > [noun] > that which lacks relation > things unrelated to each other
independency1659
1659 B. Walton Considerator Considered 9 The whole being ‘rudis indigestaque moles’, a confused heap of Independencies. [A pun on sense 2.]
b. An independent or autonomous state. (Cf. dependency n. 4c.)
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > territory governed by a ruler or state > independent or autonomous
empire1532
independency1817
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. ii. 355 Of these independencies, the most important..was that..which..included the whole of the vast province, or region of Berar.
1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxv. 16 Many petty independencies, small towns, and villages.
c. A person of independent means.
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the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > sufficient means > one who
independency1866
1866 T. Carlyle E. Irving 125 Expecting to be flattered like an independency, as well as paid like an innkeeper.
d. A competency; a fortune which renders it unnecessary for the possessor to earn his living: = independence n. 2.
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the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > sufficient means
sufficiency1495
competent1574
competency1625
conveniencya1628
competencea1640
conveniencea1680
independency1747
independence1816
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xiii. 79 I, who never designed to take advantage of the independency bequeathed me.
1804 W. Tennant Indian Recreat. (ed. 2) I. 286 Men..who leave their native country with the sole view of acquiring an independency.
1886 Liverpool Daily Post 5 Mar. 4/5 The deceased had something in the nature of an independency, however modest.
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