adjective
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not guaranteed or promised by a covenant
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not in accordance with or sanctioned by a covenant
Etymology
Origin of uncovenanted
Example Sentences
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If uncovenanted labour is allowed to enter a trade on the same terms as those who have served an apprenticeship, the latter have clearly a grievance.
From Boy Labour and Apprenticeship by Bray, Reginald Arthur
Ages so multiform and redundant and full of blood as the Victorian take a long time to die; they have their surprising recoveries and their uncovenanted convalescences.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund
"I hope all the uncovenanted present felt its weighty solemnity."
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
A shed had been put up; but our cooking was an "uncovenanted mercy," and when our beef came there was a question as to how it could be cooked—how that additional work could be done.
From Half a Century by Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon
Let others be contented with the uncovenanted mercies of God.
From Sovereign Grace Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects by Moody, Dwight Lyman
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