covenant
noun
an agreement or promise, usually formal, between two or more people or groups to do or not do something specified.
covenantal
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a word derived from
covenant.
Example Sentences
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Obama seemed to want to weave back into America’s civic-republican fabric some tough old threads of Abrahamic, covenantal faith.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024
It will be about the covenantal relationship, which he said requires each person to consider the safety of their neighbor.
From Washington Post ● May 15, 2020
It stands for the idea that our covenantal institutions — like family, faith, tradition and community — orient us toward higher loves and common dreams that we then pursue in the great gymnasium of liberty.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2018
There was a political realm, but the heart of society was in the covenantal realm: “marriages, families, congregations, communities, charities and voluntary associations.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2017
Van Os, of Zwolle, attacked the accepted covenantal theory, and the doctrine of immediate imputation.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst
