The Collaborative International Dictionary
Covenanter \Cov"e*nant*er\ (k?v"?-n?nt-?r), n.
One who makes a covenant.
(Eccl. Hist.) One who subscribed and defended the ``Solemn League and Covenant.'' See Covenant.
Wiktionary
n. One who makes a covenant.
Wikipedia
The Covenanters were a Scottish Presbyterian movement that played an important part in the history of Scotland, and to a lesser extent that of England and Ireland, during the 17th century. Presbyterian denominations tracing their history to the Covenanters and often incorporating the name continue the ideas and traditions in Scotland and internationally.
They derive their name from the term covenant after the Covenant between God and the Israelites in the Old Testament. There were two important covenants in Scottish history, the National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant.
Usage examples of "covenanter".
Covenanters expected that, on the cessation of the persecution, there would be the restoration of the whole Covenanted Reformation in Church and State.
Dynsman had broken into the Covenanter to plant the bomb a week earlier, he had also paced out the detonation time.
Under His gracious influence, the bonds of prejudice against covenanting are as green withs and the covenanter stands forth in liberty and in power.
Such and the like sins a godly covenanter must shun, lest he profane it.
Every man by nature is a covenanter with hell, and with every sin he is at agreement: be sure you revoke and cancel that covenant, before you subscribe this.
You must bid high for the honour of a covenanter, for a part in this privilege.
The column moved swiftly forward to cut the enemy into disorganized fragments for the following Covenanter infantry to mop up.
Once there his tanks would make short work of the headquarters and depots, the Covenanter infantry would secure the pass, and his brigade could charge across the open fields beyond.
Rollo, a popular preacher, and zealous Covenanter, was her great favorite, and paid her, on his part, no less veneration.
He was damned if he was going to get caught here by Covenanters who might be roaming the area.
Edinburgh, not for the first time, and sent Covenanters in hot pursuit.
If those horses indicated Covenanters were after him, he needed to let her go for her own safety.
They might be Covenanters coming for me, to hang me like they did Montrose.
How had he escaped the Covenanters that Baen himself had set upon him?
Gerek waited until his party were out of sight of the castle, then headed in the opposite direction of Killearnan, hoping to get out of MacFarr country before the man, or any Covenanters he might send, came after them.