Synonyms:
covenant
Meaning: (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return
Synonyms:
covenant, compact, concordat
Meaning: a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
covenant
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
covenant
Meaning: enter into a covenant
Usage examples
A covenant, as a test, was taken by the lords and commons, and imposed on their army, and on all who lived within their quarters.
When he was introduced our president read the constitution, or covenant as it was called, and then made some remarks concerning it.
Democracy, the right of nations to determine their own fate, a covenant of enduring peace--these were the ideals for which the American people were to pour out their blood and treasure.
In one of the large museums is a room in which are kept the great liberator's clothing, saddle, boots and spears and these things are as sacred to them as the Ark of the Covenant was to the Jews.
But in the present danger which threatened their cause, all scruples were laid aside; and the covenant, by whose means alone they could expect to obtain so considerable a reenforcement as the accession of the Scottish nation, was received without opposition.
The subscribers of the covenant vowed also to preserve the reformed religion established in the church of Scotland; but, by the artifice of Vane, no declaration more explicit was made with regard to England and Ireland, than that these kingdoms should be reformed according to the word of God and the example of the purest churches.