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Covenant

noun

A signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action. Synonyms: compact, concordat.

(Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return.

verb

(past & past part. covenanted; pres. part. covenanting)

Enter into a covenant.

Enter into a covenant or formal agreement. "The nations covenanted to fight terrorism around the world"

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"Covenant" Quotes from Famous Books

... obey the commands of God on this subject. Marriage is, indeed, the first and most important institution of human existence—the foundation of all civilisation and culture—the root of church and state. It is the most intimate covenant of heart formed among mankind; and for many persons the only relation in which they feel the true sentiments of humanity. It gives scope for every human virtue, since each of these is developed from the love and confidence which here predominate. It unites all which ennobles ...

— Clotel; or, The President's Daughter • William Wells Brown

... sentiment was his famous speech of March 7, 1850, On the Constitution and the Union, which gave so much offense to the extreme Antislavery party, who held with Garrison that a Constitution which protected slavery was "a league with death and a covenant with hell." It is not claiming too much for Webster to assert that the sentences of these and other speeches, memorized and declaimed by thousands of school-boys throughout the North, did as much as any single influence to train up a generation ...

— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

... the olden days who sought to find security in falsehood, and to construct a sovereignty by the aid of broken covenants. Let me read to you their boasts as it is recorded by the prophet Isaiah: "We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement: when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us, for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves." ...

— Defenders of Democracy • The Militia of Mercy

... intellectuals around Wilson, under the clear eyes of crafty Colonel House, drew up their charter for world government (League of Nations Covenant) and prepared for the brave new socialist one-world to follow World War I. But things went sour at the Paris Peace Conference. They soured even more when constitutionalists in the United States Senate found out what was being planned ...

— The Invisible Government • Dan Smoot

... themselves: the well-known vices of Isaac were rendered still more contemptible by his infirmities, and the young Alexius was hated as an apostate, who had renounced the manners and religion of his country. His secret covenant with the Latins was divulged or suspected; the people, and especially the clergy, were devoutly attached to their faith and superstition; and every convent, and every shop, resounded with the danger of the church and the tyranny ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon

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