National Covenant

American  

noun

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

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National Covenant British  

noun

1. See Covenant

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Example Sentences

The National Covenant, which demanded radical changes in how Scotland was governed, was signed in the graveyard in February 1638.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2020

As France was quitting the area in 1943, an unwritten but carefully wrought National Covenant was adopted by Lebanese leaders in an effort to accommodate the new country's volatile religious mix of Christians and Moslems.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the National Covenant, an unwritten agreement reached at the time, the country's President is always a Maronite, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim, and the Speaker of Parliament a Shi'ite Muslim.

From Time Magazine Archive

We told them that we could not fee any unless we would wilfully break our National Covenant, which both Parliament and People have taken jointly together to effect a Reformation.

From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Berens, Lewis Henry

The Covenant bond, being signed by the king, the nobles, and a great multitude of people, was called, The First National Covenant of Scotland.

From Sketches of the Covenanters by McFeeters, J. C.