root-and-brancher

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of the English Independents, who advocated local congregational control of religious and church matters, without any wider ecclesiastical or political hierarchy.

Word forms

root-and-brancher root-and-branchers

Etymology

From root and branch + -er.

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