Other forms: covenants
A covenant is a solemn binding agreement, especially one made with a god. The covenant with Abraham, break the covenant, a covenant relationship.
It is a central idea in Judaism and Christianity, where the covenant is the agreement between God and a people, and both the Old and New Testaments take their name from the word — testament meaning covenant. In law, a covenant is a formal promise in a deed, and restrictive covenants on property limit what an owner may do with it, sometimes for centuries. Note covenanted and the Scottish Covenanters.
1nouncovenantA solemn binding agreement, especially with a god.
“The covenant is the whole subject of those four chapters.”
2nounpromiseA formal promise in a legal deed.
“A restrictive covenant on the deeds forbids any building at all.”
covenant is a binding agreement.
The Latin is to come together, the same coming together in convenient. A covenant is the promise two sides come together on.
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Old French covenant means an agreement, from Latin convenire, to come together — the same verb as convene and convenient. A covenant is people coming together on terms, and the religious weight was added later.
Latin
conveniens — agreeing, agreeable, suitable, convenient
Old French
covenant — agreement
Middle English
covenaunt
English, today
covenant
Built from
From Middle English covenaunt, borrowed from Old French covenant (“agreement”), from Latin conveniens (“agreeing, agreeable, suitable, convenient”), present participle of conveniō (“to agree”). Cognate with convenient and convene.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA