covenant
noun
an agreement or promise, usually formal, between two or more people or groups to do or not do something specified.
covenanted
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past participleof covenant.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof covenant.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
covenantnounan agreement or promise, usually formal, between two or more people or groups to do or not do something specified.
Example Sentences
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Puritans tried to Hebraize their Christian quest for personal salvation in Christ by grounding it in covenanted communities of law and collective discipline.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024
Falcicchio said units covenanted through the program must remain affordable for at least 15 years at or below 80 percent of the area median family income, with the incentive determined by affordability, among other factors.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
They did not abandon the ideals of a covenanted people, but focused more on preserving their own colony than reforming all Christendom.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
It held that the sovereign nation does not start with central government but with the local covenanted community – the foedus – which form networks to constitute the nation.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2016
And besides, being a Christian man, I was covenanted to fight only when I could do so without sin, and with some chance of continuing the life so marvellously preserved to me!
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
