Covenanting ppl. a.

[f. as prec. + -ING².] That enters into or signs a covenant; spec. in Sc. Hist. (see COVENANT 9).

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1653. Gauden, Hierasp., Pref. to Rdr. 13. Their select fraternities and covenanting congregations.

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a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., IX. (1843), 592/1. He had application enough from the covenanting party of Scotland.

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1864. Burton, Scot Abr., II. ii. 147. Alexander, who led the Covenanting troops to the English border.

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1888. M. Morris, Claverhouse, v. 82. A paper (known in Covenanting annals as the Hamilton Declaration).

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