covenant
used in Sense and Sensibility

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Definition

a binding agreement

or (much more rarely): to formally or solemnly promise

"I felt myself," she added, "to be as solemnly engaged to him, as if the strictest legal covenant had bound us to each other."
Chapter 29 (77% in)

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