Definitions for Covenanter

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Covenanter cov·e·nant·er

Spelling: [kuhv-uh-nuh n-ter; for 2 also Covenanter is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 572 anagrams from letters in Covenanter (aceennortv).

Definitions for Covenanter

noun

1. a person who makes a covenant.
2. (initial capital letter) Scottish History. a person who, by solemn agreement, pledged to uphold Presbyterianism, especially an adherent of the National Covenant or the Solemn League and Covenant.

Origin of Covenanter

First recorded in 1630-40; covenant + -er¹

Examples for Covenanter

The patriot is a patriot still; and the covenanter is a covenanter still.

You must bid high for the honour of a covenanter, for a part in this privilege.

Colonel Graham might order the covenanter to be shot, and that were dreadful enough.

But the girls had come from the same strain of covenanter ancestors.

Read,” said the covenanter, “for the writing surely is plain.

The ancestral covenanter within us awakens, and is terrified by his ancient fears.

For a hypocrite give 154 me a covenanter, and, of course, the higher they are the cleverer.

But how could a covenanter give his approval without perjury?

The temperament of the covenanter was of the non-conductor type.

Janet, however, was too sound a covenanter to give her consent.