[f. COVENANT v. + -ING1.] The entering into or signing a covenant.

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1639.  Drumm. of Hawth., Consid. to Parl., Wks. (1711), 186. For whatsoever crime; except lese majesty against the state, and not covenanting.

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1652.  Gaule, Magastrom., 140. In regard of their implicite covenanting.

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1681–6.  J. Scott, Chr. Life (1747), III. 285. These Words do imply our formal Covenanting with God in Baptism.

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