uncovenanted

American  

[uhn-kuhv-uh-nuhn-tid] / ʌnˈkʌv ə nən tɪd /

adjective

1. not agreed to or promised by covenant.

2. not having joined in a covenant.

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uncovenanted British  

/ ʌnˈkʌvənəntɪd /

adjective

1. not guaranteed or promised by a covenant

2. not in accordance with or sanctioned by a covenant

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Etymology

Origin of uncovenanted

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.

From The Guardian

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.

From The Guardian

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.

From The Guardian

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

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg