independentismn.
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1655 R. Baillie Disswasive Vindic. 44 I love not Episcopal principles, neither Independentisme.
1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα 564 Anabaptisme, or Presbyterisme, or Independentisme..rudely justled Episcopacy out of the Church of England.
1665 J. Livingston Mem. Char. in Sel. Biogr. (1845) I. 335 He marvellously refuted Independentisme.
1827 J. Aikman tr. G. Buchanan Hist. Scotl. IV. vii. 84 They opposed every approach to independentism.
2. The principles of any party called Independent.
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