covenantern.
/ˈkʌv(ə)nəntə/, /ˈkʌvn̩əntə/, U.S. /ˈkəvənən(t)ər/, /ˈkəvəˌnæn(t)ər/ (in sense 2 more traditionally)Brit. /ˌkʌvəˈnantə/, U.S. /ˌkəvəˈnæn(t)ər/, Scottish English /ˌkʌvəˈnantər/ 1. gen. One who covenants or enters into a covenant with others.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > one who is involved in making
treater1489
covenant-man1540
obligatora1625
covenanter1643
covenantee1649
declarer1649
convener1650
tryster1655
contractor1724
conventionist1768
circumscriber1776
declarationist1892
1643 J. Caryl Nature Sacred Covenant 10 You must bid high for the honour of a Covenanter.
1656 S. Winter Serm. 40 Abraham is brought in as the first explicit Covenanter.
1675 T. Brooks Paradice Opened 4 Faithfulness is plainly and clearly declared..betwixt covenanters.
1850 E. H. Browne Expos. Thirty-nine Art. (1874) xxvii. 615 But a covenant on God's part implies the faithfulness of the Covenanter.
2. Scottish History. A subscriber or adherent of the National Covenant signed 28 February 1638, or of the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643. (In Scotland traditionally pronounced coveˈnanter.).
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society > faith > worship > vow > covenant > [noun] > Scottish Presbyterian > one adhering to
covenanter1638
covenanteer1660
gospel-ladc1679
hillman1829
1638 Duke of Hamilton in Hamilton Papers (1880) 51 Take him to be a uoorse instrument then anie Couenanter.
1638 King Charles I in W. M. Hetherington Hist. Church Scotl. (1842) 290 I intend not to yield to the demands of those traitors the Covenanters.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 154 This blew ribbin wes worn, and called the covenanteris ribbin be the haill soldiouris of this army.
1681 in Bagford Ballads (1878) 929 Each zealous Covenanter [rhyme a Ranter].
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 93 The same fanatic principle..emptied its whole vial of wrath on the miserable covenanters of Scotland.
1886 J. Morley Mill's Autobiogr. in Crit. Misc. III. 66 The temperament of the Scotch Covenanter of the 17th century.
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