independency

noun

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Independence.

   “All young creatures, thought I, more or less, covet independency […].”

   “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.”

   “I found myself in possession of a small independency”

2. (countable, uncountable)An independent territory or state.

name

1. The principle that each individual religious congregation is free from any external ecclesiastical control, as by a bishop.