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covenant
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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)
  • You did it because you were carrying out a personal covenant between Uncle Enzo and every customer.†  (source)
  • Then we read that God made a covenant with Abraham and his seed.†  (source)
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  • Shipmaster Singh and Councilor Halmyn had briefed us on the so-called Separatists of Maui-Covenant.†  (source)
  • It said a lot about this religion-Judaismthat some of its followers, old southern crackers who talked with southern twangs and wore straw hats, seemed to believe that its covenants went beyond the color of one's skin.†  (source)
    covenants = binding agreements
  • FRANCIS: These are all covenanted Christians, sir.†  (source)
    covenanted = formally or solemnly promised
  • 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)
    Covenanteth = formally or solemnly promises
    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)
    covenanting = formally or solemnly promising
  • 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)
    uncovenanted = unagreed or unpromised
    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.
  • When you unwittingly stuck your hand into the wasps' nest, you hadn't made a covenant with the devil to give up your civilized self with its trappings of love and respect and honor.†  (source)
  • For decades, L.A. was notorious for restrictive covenants — where some areas were off limits to "undesirables."†  (source)
    covenants = binding agreements
  • 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)
    covenanted = formally or solemnly promised
  • But to covenant to assist the Soveraign, in doing hurt to another, unlesse he that so covenanteth have a right to doe it himselfe, is not to give him a Right to Punish.†  (source)
    covenanteth = formally or solemnly promises
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