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covenant
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  • Especially a world that looked as much like Old Earth as Maul-Covenant did.†  (source)
  • CRAIG BOWKER JR.: I know who you are, Mr. Potter, but even you must understand that it's against school covenant for parents or professors to enter a House quarters without express permission from ...†  (source)
  • There are proven ways: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.†  (source)
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  • It's as though we were all sworn to the same secret covenant, so secret we don't even know what we belong to.†  (source)
  • Most afternoons they played Monopoly, their game a conspiracy of house rules, obscure covenants, and revenge.†  (source)
  • FRANCIS: These are all covenanted Christians, sir.†  (source)
  • The matter, or subject of a Covenant, is alwayes something that falleth under deliberation; (For to Covenant, is an act of the Will; that is to say an act, and the last act, of deliberation;) and is therefore alwayes understood to be something to come; and which is judged Possible for him that Covenanteth, to performe.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She covenanteth" in older English, today we say "She covenants."
  • The tenancy of Mr Pancks was limited to one airy bedroom; he covenanting and agreeing with Mr Rugg his landlord, that in consideration of a certain scale of payments accurately defined, and on certain verbal notice duly given, he should be at liberty to elect to share the Sunday breakfast, dinner, tea, or supper, or each or any or all of those repasts or meals of Mr and Miss Rugg (his daughter) in the back-parlour.†  (source)
  • We must remember that though she may have erred grievously in leaving her home, she is still our sister: and it is to be believed that God's uncovenanted mercies are extended towards her, and that she is a member of the flock of Christ.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncovenanted means not and reverses the meaning of covenanted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master — the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty and to administer chastisement.†  (source)
  • For decades, L.A. was notorious for restrictive covenants — where some areas were off limits to "undesirables."†  (source)
  • I pined greatly in secret to know the contents of the tent, which Ishmael guarded so carefully, and which he had covenanted that I should swear, (jurare per deos) not to approach nigher than a defined number of cubits, for a definite period of time.†  (source)
  • But if he that so Covenanteth, knew before hand he was to expect no other assurance, than the Actors word; then is the Covenant valid; because the Actor in this case maketh himselfe the Author.†  (source)
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