covenant
noun
an agreement or promise, usually formal, between two or more people or groups to do or not do something specified.
covenanting
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present participleof covenant.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Mr Witherspoon, I ken you weel; meikle sweet counselling I hae gotten frae you when ye preached for our minister at Camrachle in the time of the great covenanting.
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt
Watt, son of a Greenock carpenter, came from the sturdy Scottish stock, ultimately of covenanting ancestry, from which so many eminent men have sprung.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Sir Leslie Stephen
Behold, a reforming people and a covenanting people.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
Mind, this covenanting with God is not a case of bargaining.
From Standards of Life and Service by Thomas Henry Howard
Then it was that I wrote “Voces Fidelium,” a series of dramatic monologues in verse; then that I indited the bulk of a covenanting novel—like so many others, never finished.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
