covenanter

[kuhv-uh-nuh n-ter; for 2 also Scot. kuhv-uh-nan-ter]

noun

a person who makes a covenant.

(initial capital letter) Scottish History. a person who, by solemn agreement, pledged to uphold Presbyterianism, especially an adherent of the National Covenant or the Solemn League and Covenant.

Origin of covenanter

First recorded in 1630–40; covenant + -er¹

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Examples from the Web for covenanter

Circumstances aided in keeping this side of Sunday as my Covenanter grandfather would have had it.
Paris Vistas|Helen Davenport Gibbons
Had she any idea of the sort of fold towards which Warington—at once Covenanter and man of the world—was carrying his lost sheep?
The Marriage of William Ashe|Mrs. Humphry Ward
The West has shaken a good deal of the Covenanter out of him.
The Prairie Wife|Arthur Stringer
His life reveals the secret and source of the Covenanter's strength.
Sketches of the Covenanters|J. C. McFeeters

The ancestral Covenanter within us awakens, and is terrified by his ancient fears.
Adventures among Books|Andrew Lang

British Dictionary definitions for covenanter

Covenanter

noun

a person upholding the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 between Scotland and England to establish and defend Presbyterianism

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