Covenanter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who makes a covenant.
  • n. A Scottish Presbyterian who supported either of two agreements, the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643, intended to defend and extend Presbyterianism.
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  • n. One who makes a covenant.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who makes a covenant.
  • n. One who subscribed and defended the “Solemn League and Covenant.” See Covenant.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who makes a covenant; a party to an agreement or contract.
  • n. [capitalized] In Scottish history, one of those who in the seventeenth century, particularly in 1638 and 1643, bound themselves by solemn covenant to uphold and maintain the Presbyterian doctrine and polity as the religion of the country, to the exclusion of both prelacy and popery.
    • Word Usage
    "They know him, the covenanter, by rote at least, for a chameleon at last, in his true falseheaven colours from ultraviolent to subred tissues."
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