independency

== English == === Etymology === From independent +‎ -cy. === Noun === independency (countable and uncountable, plural independencies) (obsolete) 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.