Uncovenanted

[ʌn'kʌvәnәntid]

Definition

(a.) Not covenanted; not granted or entered into under a covenant, agreement, or contract.

(a.) Not having joined in a league, or assented to a covenant or agreement, as to the Solemn League and Covenant of the Scottish people in the times of the Stuarts.

(a.) Not having entered into relationship with God through the appointed means of grace; also, not promised or assured by the divine promises or conditions; as, uncovenanted mercies.

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Definition

adj. not promised by covenant: not bound by a covenant esp. not subscribing to the famous Solemn League and Covenant of 1643.—Uncovenanted civil service a branch of the East Indian civil service whose members pass no entrance examination and may resign their offices at pleasure—opp. to Covenanted service; Uncovenanted mercies such mercies as God may bestow on those not embraced within the covenant of grace—that is those outside the ordinary channels of grace.

Edited by Edith