Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who makes a covenant.
- noun A Scottish Presbyterian who supported either of two agreements, the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643, intended to defend and extend Presbyterianism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes a covenant; a party to an agreement or contract.
- noun [capitalized] In Scottish history, one of those who in the seventeenth century, particularly in 1638 and 1643, bound themselves by solemn covenant to uphold and maintain the Presbyterian doctrine and polity as the religion of the country, to the exclusion of both prelacy and popery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes a covenant.
- noun (Eccl. Hist.) One who subscribed and defended the “Solemn League and Covenant.” See
Covenant .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who makes a
covenant .
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Examples
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They know him, the covenanter, by rote at least, for a chameleon at last, in his true falseheaven colours from ultraviolent to subred tissues.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Notwithstanding all this, the greater part of so vilely abused parents are so timorous and afraid of devils and hobgoblins, and so deeply plunged in superstition, that they dare not gainsay nor contradict, much less oppose and resist those unnatural and impious actions, when the mole-catcher hath been present at the perpetrating of the fact, and a party contractor and covenanter in that detestable bargain.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Notwithstanding all this, the greater part of so vilely abused parents are so timorous and afraid of devils and hobgoblins, and so deeply plunged in superstition, that they dare not gainsay nor contradict, much less oppose and resist those unnatural and impious actions, when the mole-catcher hath been present at the perpetrating of the fact, and a party contractor and covenanter in that detestable bargain.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In her desperate plight she besought her grandfather's clemency and forgiveness but that rigid old covenanter had declared that even as she had made her bed in willful disobedience to his command so she should lie on it for all of him.
Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Margaret Rebecca Piper
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Mediaeval abbot and crusader, cavalier and covenanter, Elizabeth and Cromwell, spoke once more with a living voice to ears which were opened to hear.
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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But if the covenanter be one of the better rank, the devil only draws blood of the party, or touches him or her in some part of the body, without any visible mark remaining.
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In 1782 these new seceder and covenanter bodies united under the name of Associate Reformed Presbyterian
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The old covenanter seems to have told Charles some plain truths, and the king in return forgot the courtesy which so distinguished him, and retorted that Rothes was a liar.
The Red Book of Heroes Mrs. Lang 1909
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At Dumfries he halted, and read a proclamation stating that 'he was king's man, as he had been covenanter, for the defence and maintenance of the true Protestant religion, his majesty's just and sacred authority, the laws and privileges of
The Red Book of Heroes Mrs. Lang 1909
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Rusco Castle was too near Anwoth Kirk and Anwoth Manse, and its owner had had Samuel Rutherford too long for his minister and his near neighbour to make it possible for him to be 'ane cold covenanter quha did not do his dewtie in everything committed to his charge thankfullie and willinglie.'
Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894
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