uncovenanted

[uhn-kuhv-uh-nuhn-tid]

adjective

1. not agreed to or promised by covenant.

2. not having joined in a covenant.

uncovenanted

/ ʌnˈkʌvənəntɪd /

adjective

1. not guaranteed or promised by a covenant

2. not in accordance with or sanctioned by a covenant

Word History and Origins

Origin of uncovenanted¹

First recorded in 1640–50; un- ¹ + covenant + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Incoming spouses will not – unless they choose to – need to agonise, like Mrs Brown and Mrs Blair, about how best to deploy this uncovenanted influence.

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The other reason, an uncovenanted bonus for the Thatcherite right, is that the financial crash of 2008-09 gave them the chance they'd been waiting 70 years for to wind up our postwar social democracy and replace it by their ultimate objective: a fully market state.

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The absence of two leading psychopaths from Facebook appears, however, to be already translating into an uncovenanted, promotional gift to a company that can hardly avoid association with some of the online world's sadder extremes, still visualised by some of us as millions of little Julian Assanges, each immured in the greenish light of a darkened bedroom and wearing socks unchanged for three decades.

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Men not sensitive to inconsistency could find room within the synagogue for the 'paternal theism' of Jesus, even if this must more and more be placed under the head of 'uncovenanted mercies.'

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The condition of this “uncovenanted labour” has always been the unsolved problem in any apprenticeship system.

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