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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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
The committee also reported that they had lighted on an agreement by which the Company had covenanted to furnish a person named Colston with two hundred tons of saltpetre.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
So that one son, by paying half what he had covenanted to pay, and which he could pay, gets a farm equal in value to what his father paid £3000 in hard cash for.
From The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.
In the first case there was indeed remission of sins, because the Lord had covenanted to meet His people upon that ground.
From The First Soprano by Mary Hitchcock
And with the help of Santiago he gathered together a great host, and went up against Coimbra in the month of January, even as he had covenanted, and laid siege to it.
From Chronicle of the Cid by Robert Southey
