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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



... reckon the New Testament as the most precious gift which our Lord Jesus Christ has given since His Ascension to those who believe on His Name. The word "testament," which is in Latin testamentum, corresponds with our word "covenant," and the phrase "New Testament" signifies the record of that new covenant in which God bound man to Himself by the death of His Son. The truth that this was a new covenant, distinct from the covenant ...
— The Books of the New Testament • Leighton Pullan
... which he should have given up, and drave out his younger brother from the city. Then the younger, whose name was Polynices, fled to Argos, to King Adrastus. And after a while he married the daughter of the King, who made a covenant with him that he would bring him back with a high hand to Thebes, and set him on the throne of his father. Then the King sent messengers to certain of the princes of Greece, entreating that they would help in this matter. And of these ...
— Stories from the Greek Tragedians • Alfred Church
... of sinners. After a little he began to repeat after her; as he went on his heart was interested, and he broke out into an earnest prayer for himself; bewailed his sins, confessed and promised to forsake them; entered into covenant with God; light broke out in his darkness; how long he prayed he did not know; he seemed to have forgotten his child in his prayer. When he came to himself he raised his head from the bed on which he had rested it; there lay the little speaker, a lovely smile was upon the face, her hand was ...
— Children's Edition of Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer • S. B. Shaw
... known to all whom it may concern that we, the undersigned, citizens of the County of Beaver, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do severally and distinctly, each for himself, covenant, grant, and agree, to and with the said George Rapp and his associates, as ...
— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff
... (S198). Standing in St. Catherine's Chapel within the partially finished church of Westminster Abbey (S207), Henry, holding a lighted taper in his hand, in company with the chief men of the realm, swore to observe the provisions of the covenant. ...
— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery


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