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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J. S., one of these life-long toilers, who worked as an uncovenanted postman for many years, commenced his career in the navy.
From The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone by Tombs, Robert Charles
What has he to do with those covenanted and uncovenanted Scotchmen who want to enrich themselves by bullying him?
From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James
The preachers, their masters, would not permit them to bring to Scotland an uncovenanted king.
From A Short History of Scotland by Lang, Andrew
This is the mercy we above called uncovenanted mercy.
From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by Lenker, John Nicholas
It had been one of those uncovenanted gestures that hold the promise of the treasures of an eternal friendship.
From Widdershins by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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