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Definition of Covenant

1. Verb. Enter into a covenant.

2. Noun. A signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action.

3. Verb. Enter into a covenant or formal agreement. "The nations covenanted to fight terrorism around the world"

4. Noun. (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return.

Definition of Covenant

1. n. A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement.

2. v. i. To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation.

3. v. t. To grant or promise by covenant.

Definition of Covenant

1. Noun. (legal) An agreement to do or not do a particular thing. ¹

2. Noun. (legal) A promise, incidental to a deed or contract, either express or implied. ¹

3. Noun. A pact or binding agreement between two or more parties. ¹

4. Noun. An incidental clause in an agreement. ¹

5. Verb. to enter into, or promise something by, a covenant ¹

6. Verb. (legal) To enter a formal agreement. ¹

7. Verb. (legal) To bind oneself in contract. ¹

8. Verb. (legal) To make a stipulation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Covenant

1. to enter into a binding agreement [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Covenant

covarying cove cove plane covector coved covelet covelets covelike covelline covellines

covellite covellites coven covenableness covenably covenant (current term) covenant of salt covenant of title covenantal covenanted

covenantee covenantees covenanter covenanters covenanteth covenanting covenantor covenantors covenants covenants of title

Literary usage of Covenant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"The very relation of God to man was fitted into this frame of contract or covenant. Jehovah had vouchsafed to make covenant with Noah and Abraham; ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Both of these comprehensive types are also present in the covenant made between God and man, since in every sacrifiée the blood or life of the victim was ..."

3. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Translated Out of by Robert M. Hartley, American Bible Society, Wightman family (1875)
"7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, ..."

4. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs, in Civil by Thomas Starkie (1891)
"RELEASE. anil sufficient repair, amount to a covenant (r) Sec Ind. tit. ... A recital in a lease of mines of an covenant could be implied from the recital ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"To support the claim of the widow the concluding words must be raised up to a covenant to leave her such a portion of the personal estate as she would be ..."

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