CONGREGATIONALISM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

System of beliefs and church government of a Protestant denomination in which each member church is self-governing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Congregationalism" is a kind of...):

Protestantism (the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation)

Derivation:

Congregationalist (a member of the Congregational Church)

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