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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the Covenanters: as, the covenanting cause.
  • Belonging to the extreme party of Presbyterians, known as Covenanters, who dissented from the final settlement of the matters at issue between the Scottish church and the king, and afterward formed the Reformed Presbyterian Church: as, a covenanting minister.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of covenant.

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