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How to use covenanter in a sentence

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A covenant is a contract in which the covenanter makes a promise to a covenantee to do or not do some action.
These systems would form the basis of the Covenanter armies that intervened in the Civil Wars in England and Ireland.
The standing army was mainly employed in the suppression of Covenanter rebellions and the guerilla war undertaken by the Cameronians in the East.
The United Presbyterian Church of North America was a small denomination formed in 1858 from Scottish Covenanter and Seceder traditions.
The disaster at Philiphaugh was largely due to the Royalists' own disunity and the return of the main Covenanter armies from England.
In the years after the Union of the Crowns in 1603, Galloway underwent radical change, during the War of the Three Kingdoms and Covenanter rebellion.
A loophole which allowed evasion of this tax was closed in the Education Act of 1646, which established a solid institutional foundation for schools on Covenanter principles.
In 1680 a more extreme mood appeared among sections of the Covenanter underground, which found expression in a document known as the Sanquhar Declaration.
Cameron himself was killed in a clash with government forces at Airds Moss in July 1680, but his followers, now a tiny part of the Covenanter movement, continued to exist.
With his original Scottish Royalist followers and his new Covenanter allies, King Charles II became the greatest threat facing the new English republic.
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Colonel Graham might order the covenanter to be shot, and that were dreadful enough.
For a hypocrite give 154 me a covenanter, and, of course, the higher they are the cleverer.
The ancestral covenanter within us awakens, and is terrified by his ancient fears.
You must bid high for the honour of a covenanter, for a part in this privilege.
But the girls had come from the same strain of covenanter ancestors.
The temperament of the covenanter was of the non-conductor type.
But how could a covenanter give his approval without perjury?
Janet, however, was too sound a covenanter to give her consent.
This, as you know, is the important point of distinction between the Covenanter and the Cavalier.
It also contained a clause urging Scottish Covenanter Presbyterians to come to Carolina, a clause that provoked local dissent.
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