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root-and-branchers

root-and-branchers is the plural of root-and-brancher.

Meaning of root-and-brancher

Noun

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.

Questions about root-and-branchers

What is root-and-branchers the plural of?
Root-and-branchers is the plural of root-and-brancher.

Words near root-and-branchers in the dictionary

  1. root words
  2. root zone
  3. root zones
  4. root-and-branch
  5. root-and-brancher
  6. root-and-branchers
  7. root-bound
  8. root-cause
  9. root-caused
  10. root-causes
  11. root-causing

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