National Covenant

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noun

an agreement (1638) among Scottish Presbyterians to uphold their faith in Scotland.

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How to use National Covenant in a sentence

The scheme has been condemned by civil liberties groups and queried by the National Association of Head Teachers.
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Portraits of Lincoln and Eisenhower were removed from the offices of the Republican National Committee.
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Whether he can do it on the national stage is the unanswered question.
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We face a lot of problems at this moment in our national and global history.
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But the last national figure to wield ancient personal authority in an explicitly religious way was Robert F. Kennedy.
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The scene is the covenant made between the two first persons of the Trinity on Mount Moriah.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
He was long a correspondent of the National Intelligencer and other papers, residing in Virginia.
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He has come to believe in such things as old age pensions and national insurance.
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I must make no mistake, and blunder into a national type of features, all wrong; if I make your mask, it must do us credit.
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Opening of the national assembly of France, after the abdication of Louis Philippe.
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British Dictionary definitions for National Covenant

National Covenant

noun

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