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covenanter

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cov·e·nant·er  (kv-nntr)
n.
1. One who makes a covenant.
2. Covenanter A Scottish Presbyterian who supported either of two agreements, the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643, intended to defend and extend Presbyterianism.

Covenanter
Noun
Scot history a person upholding either of two 17th-century covenants to establish and defend Presbyterianism


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This, as you know, is the important point of distinction between the Covenanter and the Cavalier.
And indeed it must be owned that both my scruples and the words in which I declared them, smacked somewhat of the Covenanter, and were little in their place among wild Highland Jacobites.
 
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