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  covenanter

  noun

  a person who makes a covenant.
• 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

covenanter

American  

[kuhv-uh-nuhn-ter, kuhv-uh-nan-ter] / ˈkʌv ə nən tər, ˌkʌv əˈnæn tər /

noun

1. a person who makes a covenant.

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

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Covenanter British  

/ ˌkʌvəˈnæntə, ˈkʌvənəntə /

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of covenanter

First recorded in 1630–40; covenant + -er ¹

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Example Sentences

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You must bid high for the honour of a covenanter, for a part in this privilege.

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by James Kerr

Mediaeval abbot and crusader, cavalier and covenanter, Elizabeth and Cromwell, spoke once more with a living voice to ears which were opened to hear.

From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by George Henry Blore

Middleton, like the Marquis of Montrose, had been at one time a covenanter.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Loudon: Scottish lord and covenanter; committed to the Tower for soliciting the aid of the king of France: he was sent to Scotland by Charles.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

Whereas he goes about looking as sober as a covenanter that expected the day of judgment to-morrow and knew he was predestinated for one O' the goats.

From Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Robert Neilson Stephens

In Dumbarton the situation was stoked by zealous local ministers, with the Covenanter movement having considerable influence at the time.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025

Their father was a mining engineer from Oil City, Pa. who liked to boast of his Scotch Covenanter descent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Macartney's father, a strict Scots Covenanter minister, taught his children* a firm, old-fashioned set of religious beliefs.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been a Covenanter of zeal and forwardness till, at a meeting of the Societies, his double-faced guile had been laid bare.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

“Deliver this letter into the hands of your master,” said the Covenanter; “our business is with him.”

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by John Mackay Wilson

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