CONGREGATIONALISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Congregationalism mean? 

• CONGREGATIONALISM (noun)
  The noun CONGREGATIONALISM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CONGREGATIONALISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONGREGATIONALISM (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)