covenant
noun
an agreement or promise, usually formal, between two or more people or groups to do or not do something specified.
had covenanted
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past perfectof covenant.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In this matter Jacob followed the example of his fathers, who likewise had covenanted with heathen nations, Abraham with the Jebusites, and Isaac with the Philistines.
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 by Henrietta Szold
The lords of my council who had covenanted to serve me; even they deserted me, and took whatsoever in thirty years I had put by for my children.
From Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by H. G. (Henry George) Keene
But I had covenanted with myself long before starting that I would literally "live light in spring."
From The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment by David Grayson
There was always the chance that the girl had kept her secret to herself, inviolate, informing neither her manager nor the man she had covenanted to wed.
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
They that had now realized the casus fœderis, the case in which they had covenanted themselves to desist from idolatry, were no longer the men who had made that covenant.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
