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Covenant   /kˈəvənənt/   Listen
noun
Covenant  n.  
1.
A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement. "Then Jonathan and David made a covenant." "Let there be covenants drawn between us." "If we conclude a peace, It shall be with such strict and severe covenants As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby."
2.
(Eccl. Hist.) An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant." "He (Wharton) was born in the days of the Covenant, and was the heir of a covenanted house."
3.
(Theol.) The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures, conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience, repentance, faith, etc. "I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee."
4.
A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc.
5.
(Law)
(a)
An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of agreement.
(b)
A form of action for the violation of a promise or contract under seal.
Synonyms: Agreement; contract; compact; bargain; arrangement; stipulation. Covenant, Contract, Compact, Stipulation. These words all denote a mutual agreement between two parties. Covenant is frequently used in a religious sense; as, the covenant of works or of grace; a church covenant; the Solemn League and Covenant. Contract is the word most used in the business of life. Crabb and Taylor are wrong in saying that a contract must always be in writing. There are oral and implied contracts as well as written ones, and these are equally enforced by law. In legal usage, the word covenant has an important place as connected with contracts. A compact is only a stronger and more solemn contract. The term is chiefly applied to political alliances. Thus, the old Confederation was a compact between the States. Under the present Federal Constitution, no individual State can, without consent of Congress, enter into a compact with any other State or foreign power. A stipulation is one of the articles or provisions of a contract.


verb
Covenant  v. t.  To grant or promise by covenant. "My covenant of peace that I covenanted with you."


Covenant  v. i.  (past & past part. covenanted; pres. part. covenanting)  To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation. "Jupiter covenanted with him, that it should be hot or cold, wet or dry,... as the tenant should direct." "And they covenanted with him for thyrty pieces of silver."
Synonyms: To agree; contract; bargain; stipulate.





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"Covenant" Quotes from Famous Books



... he heard me. "I fear you are still far from grace, lad," he said. "You are shaping for a Laodicean, of whom there are many in these latter times. I do not know. It may be that God wills that the Laodiceans have their day, for the fires of our noble covenant have flamed too smokily. Yet those fires die not, and sometime they will kindle up, purified and strengthened, and will burn the trash and stubble and warm God's ...
— Salute to Adventurers • John Buchan
... and punishments upon the people; to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron."[77] Few harangues from the pulpit, except in the days of your League in France, or in the days of our Solemn League and Covenant in England, have ever breathed less of the spirit of moderation than this lecture in the Old Jewry. Supposing, however, that something like moderation were visible in this political sermon, yet politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... shall be thorns in your sides." God gave them power and ability to do this, then he required them to do it. God supplies man's cannots, not his "will nots." In Numbers twenty-fifth chapter, Phineas was given God's covenant of peace and the priesthood, because he slew the woman and man that were committing sin: "Because he was jealous for his God and made an atonement for the children of Israel." This was smashing. God himself smashed up Sodom and Gomorrah. In the seventeenth chapter of Deuteronomy, ...
— The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation • Carry A. Nation
... hold ourselves obliged, not only by the common duty of our ministerial calling, but also by the special bond of our solemn covenant with God, especially in Art. 1, to bend all our best endeavors to help forward a reformation of religion according to the word of God, which can never be effected without a due establishment of the scripture-government and discipline in the Church ...
— The Divine Right of Church Government • Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
... purpose? Was it not to satisfy himself and his court, that no art had been used to preserve Daniel? And when he came and saw Daniel safe, and his seal untouched, he was satisfied. And indeed if we consider the thing rightly, a seal thus used imports a covenant. If you deliver writings to a person sealed, and he accepts them so, your delivery and his acceptance implies a covenant between you, that the writings shall be delivered and the seal whole; and should the seal be broken, it would be a manifest fraud, and breach ...
— The Trial of the Witnessses of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ • Thomas Sherlock


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