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UK
/kˈʌvənənt/
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[ US /ˈkəvənənt/ ]
[ US /ˈkəvənənt/ ]
NOUN
- a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
- (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return
VERB
- enter into a covenant
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enter into a covenant or formal agreement
They covenanted with Judas for 30 pieces of silver
The nations covenanted to fight terrorism around the world
How To Use covenant In A Sentence
- Its inward sign is the true spiritual kingdom: the covenantal relationship between God and believers.
- So I asked Justice Kirby his view about international human rights covenants and treaties.
- In this case the subtenant had covenanted with his landlord that he would repair the property.
- The New Covenant permits Gentile Christians to be included in the covenant with Abraham.
- The marriage covenant is the foundation of the family.
- The issue of this was that they did not keep God's covenant, and so the entail was at length cut off, and the sceptre departed from Judah by degrees. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
- By putting over against merit theology not grace but covenantal nomism, Sanders [and the NPP] has managed to have a structure that preserves grace in the 'getting in' while preserving works (and frequently some form or other of merit theology) in the 'staying in.' WordPress.com News
- The constitution of the League was termed by Mr. Wilson a Covenant, a word redolent of biblical and puritanical times, which accorded well with the motives that decided him to prefer Geneva to Brussels as the seat of the League, and to adopt other measures of a supposed political character. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
- It is unnecessary to juxtapose the legal and relational aspects of covenant theology. In all three covenants, personal relations are premised upon just legal relations.
- When a lessee commits a breach of covenant on which the lessor has a right of re-entry, he may elect to avoid or not to avoid the lease, and he may do so by deed or by word.