Wiktionary

root-and-brancher

English edit

Etymology edit

root and branch +‎ -er

Noun edit

root-and-brancher (plural root-and-branchers)

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